He saved the world, but he shattered mine.

Jump or stay in the boat.

Sports section and a sticky bun. Know what that means.

I haven't left a mark on the world, but is that so bad? Considering how deeply the world has marked me?

When I first met you, that's what I remember. I looked up at the sky and thought, I'm going to love this person because even the sky looks different.

Darkness does not leave us easily as we would hope.

I guess this was what it felt like to love someone and feel like you had lost them. Even when you were still holding them in your arms.

Feelings are memories. Memories are also feelings.

These things are difficulties, not impossibilities. -- Macon

I am powerful because of who and what I am. Not because of who I am not.

She yanked my plate away and took it to the sink. She rinsed some bones that looked like pork shoulder, which was weird since we'd had chicken tonight.

I am no Patriot for I try to breathe in with the steadfast belief that my country is the Earth and my religion is Humanism.

Imagination frames events unknown In wild fantastic shapes of hideous ruin And what it fears creates.

I am not responsible for what another man thinks. I do claim responsibility for helping another man think

My idea of sexy is that less is more. The less you reveal the more people can wonder.

My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to me the centre of paralysis.

Isn't it also that on some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we are? We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals.

No nation can last which has made a mob of itself, however generous at heart.

I've pushed several women in front of violent situations. My rule is save myself first.

He who believes in the words of a dictator is the king of the fools!

Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.