Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.

To this day, good English usually means the English wealthy and powerful people spoke a generation or two ago.

It is obvious that the RUC is no longer accepted as an impartial police force.

The Irish Government can no longer stand by and see innocent people injured and perhaps worse.

There's no such thing as an unabridged dictionary.

A fan is someone who, if you have made an idiot of yourself on the pitch, doesn't think you've done a permanent job.

Into the sea I’d love to sink When with both eyes a shark can blinkIs he a brave fish or a marine man?Through those closed eyelids my heart will he scan?

Good things never last, bad things never die.

All this marked them as vaguely liberal, although their ideas would never congeal into anything like a firm ideology; in this, too, they were American.

I hear an almost inaudible but pervasive discontent with the price we pay for our current materialism. And I hear a fluttering of hope that there might be more to life than bread and circuses.

I made up my mind, but I made it up both ways.

I've actually always been into suits. But I never really wore them, I guess because I was too young and it didn't feel right.

What chance does a five-foot-seven billionaire Jew who's divorced really have of becoming president?

Self-rejection is the biggest sin that you can commit.

Ask yourself in the most silent hour of your night: must I write [create]? Dig into yourself for a deep answer.

Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being.