Good ideas are often murdered by better ones.

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.

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.

I wouldn't go out of my way to experience the indignity of middle-age just because it might be good meat for a story.

Appreciate others so that you can be appreciated

Take the Positive, and run! Run from the negative!

Just because there are thingsyou still want, that doesn’t meanyou can’t feel gratitude for all thewealth and abundancealready in your life.

Your life is a reflection of your thoughts. If you change your thinking, you change your life.

You know the old saying kill him with kindness that's the way you shut me up. With a compliment, I have nothing to prove.

I'm seen as a chronicler of the class system, which I don't think is unfair.

With my music, with what I do, I would like to bring a light into the world.

I'm shy, but not on a one-to-one basis. Over the years, I have become acclimatised to a bit of publicity.

Ah, man. (Talon) What? (Wulf) Friggin’ Fabio alert. (Talon) Hey, you’re not too far from the mark either, blondie. (Wulf) Bite me, Viking. (Talon)

Any time your head explodes, that's not a good situation.