Thomas Keneally

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

— Thomas Keneally

“The truest crime remaining to him to commit was the waste of love. It should be bequeathed, as land is.”

— Thomas Keneally

You know, so I was a weird eccentric kid but I did believe in the power of the word and of the…

— Thomas Keneally

“It is a sweet thing to outstrip a father whom you haven’t forgiven.”

— Thomas Keneally

Thomas was my true name but everyone knew me as Mick, except my mother, who knew me as definitely Michael.

— Thomas Keneally

“He manifested a resolution which amounted to sternness.”

— Thomas Keneally

“Oskar knew people would catch that trolley anyhow. Doors closed, no stops, machine guns on walls—it wouldn’t matter. Humans were incurable that…

— Thomas Keneally

“Principle is principle, of course, and terror on a gray morning is another thing.”

— Thomas Keneally

“It was a great gift which the National Socialist Party had given to the men of the SS, that they could go…

— Thomas Keneally

Personal finances are like people’s personal health, crucial and tragic to the sufferer but tedious to the listener.

— Thomas Keneally

And I think my sexuality was heavily repressed by the church, by the, you know, the design of the mortal sins.

— Thomas Keneally

“Even among Sedlacek's own small cell, his Viennese anti-Nazi club, it was not imagined that the pursuit of the Jews had grown…

— Thomas Keneally

“And with love, ambitions!”

— Thomas Keneally