A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.

The Irish, as a race, have the oral tradition in their blood. A direct question to them is an anathema, but in other cases, a mere syllable of a hero's name will elicit whole chapters of stories.

Don't you know that everybody's got a Fairyland of their own?

There’s great beauty on this world if you just have the eyes to see it.

All of us are subject to being passive to the social ills around us. It's a struggle not to become, by staying silent, an accomplice.

More and more I’ve become convinced that the great treasure to possess is the unknown.

Child and serpent, star and stone — all one.

If we are going to teach the world to stop hating the different, the other, then we’re going to have to start with children.

Once we have accepted the story we cannot escape the story's fate.

Tea is balm for the soul, don't you agree?

I was raised to believe that everybody has a responsibility to their community.

To exist is to be something, as distinguished from the nothing of non-existence, it is to be an entity of a specific nature made of specific attributes.

The only trust required is to know that when there is one ending there will be another beginning.

It is a tragedy beyond the power of language to convey when what has been imposed on women by force becomes a standard of freedom for women: and all the women say it is so.

Michael...Michael got bitten. And now he's a vampire. But he doesn't remember becoming one, and that's a big problem. So if you see him, don't, you know, hug. He bites. He doesn't mean it, though.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

It is right that we should be successful, for otherwise Spirit is not expressed.

I think your heart dances to the beat of your own drum, and I’m the happiest I’ve ever been.

Sanctification is possessing the mind of Christ.

All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter

This is the problem with being Indian. It's hard to be one of the family members. Everybody is white usually [in the movie].