“You know, so I was a weird eccentric kid but I did believe in the powe...” — Thomas Keneally Quote

“You know, so I was a weird eccentric kid but I did believe in the power of the word and of the word being made flesh I suppose, which again I suppose came from my temperament as well as my upbringing.”

“But in practice Australia - the pluralism of Australia - sorry the sectarianism to an extent stopped at the time you took your uniform off after coming home from school.”

“And I definitely wanted to be a writer, but I felt a duty now, having used up those educational resources, I felt a duty to the church and my parents to become a priest.”

“I don't listen to the news. I don't read the newspaper unless it's eccentric information - and the obituaries, of course.”

“If you hide, you won't find the eccentric people who will be your best friends.”

“There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut; a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts.”