Dreaming was only nice while it lasted.

If there is a heaven, Jane Austen is sitting in a small room with Mother Teresa and Princess Diana, listening to Duran Duran, forever. If there's a hell, she's standing.

I'm not recognised that much. I'm just a bald man in glasses and there's a rash of them in Dublin. It'd be different if I had a mohican.

You know people are always putting Ulysses in the top 10 books ever written but I doubt that any of those people were really moved by it.

It's a big con job. We have sold the myth of Dublin as a sexy place incredibly well; because it is a dreary little dump most of the time.

I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk.

Some of the people who look the most normal are probably the maddest people trying to look normal.

Good ideas are often murdered by better ones.

When I'm writing I just think there's only the page and me and nobody else.

If you are a writer you're at home, which means you're out of touch. You have to make excuses to get out there and look at how the world is changing.

It's great meeting children because you never know what they will say.

Worrying is like praying for crap!

Sometimes we need to see the bad side, to appreciate the good side.

For an individual as well as for a society, there is a gulf between merely living and living worthily.

I'm proud of my record of negotiating agreements, representing people and making sure that both employers and employees could get the best out of going to work every day.

Has creation a final purpose at all, and if so why is it not attained immediately, why does perfection not exist from the very beginning?

You can't predict what someone else is going to do and when someone else is going to leave

Leave all human injustices to the Lord, for God is the Judge, but as to yourself, be diligent in loving everybody with a pure heart.

The danger in it. Being a frontman in a band, you get addicted to adrenaline rushes.

I like records. My favorite is Simon and Garfunkel.

The truth is that good and bad coexist; sour and sweet coexist. They aren't really opposed to each other.