Every Irish person of my generation and earlier, we were raised Catholic and we'd have to learn it in school, we'd to learn the catechism by rote.

I don't know if anyone will ever sit beside me on a plane again.

My only two constants are to challenge myself and to try not to repeat myself.

I like being at home with my music and my books. I’ve done all the partying, I’ve done enough partying for four or five people as a young fella. But now I like the quiet life.

I personally think if something's not a challenge there's no point doing it because you're not gonna learn much.

I'm terrible. I'm the wrong person to talk to, I really don't know a thing.

I will always love film, the romance of film, sitting in the darkened room with strangers and watching a story for two hours - that will always remain and never be eroded by television.

I was obsessed with Batman as a kid. I did the film in part just to be near the Batmobile. But I also think [director] Christopher Nolan made a very fine, intelligent film.

You know, I'm a skinny Irish guy.

I don't have a burning passion to live in America per se but I would certainly like to work there.

If you behave like a celebrity, then people will treat you like a celebrity, and if you don't, they won't. There's not much to write about me in the tabloids.

Science is a tool of Common Sense. When we insist that all valid information come from science or doctors, Common Sense becomes uncommon or lost forever.

By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This is to me is a miracle.

Only the guilty and the lovers really fear. The first because of what they are, the second for what they might lose.

I was all the time tugging and carrying water. But now I have a river that carries me.

The people's voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.

When we have dealt with bin Laden and his network we will then broaden the campaign to go after other terrorists all around the world.

We are the ghosts of the singing furies .

Missionaries are very human folks, simply a bunch of nobodies trying to exalt somebody.

Writers are given one great story to tell their story. I’m telling my story as a political document.

Shane - who knows about Shane? Planet Shane is a lovely place a long way from here.