Thomas Keneally

In a way Australia is like Catholicism. The company is sometimes questionable and the landscape is grotesque. But you always come back.

And I was very interested in the priesthood.

I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

To increase aid to the Pakistan government when religious freedom is not upheld is tantamount to an anti-Christian foreign policy.