I don't think anyone is the perfect one to play me.

My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.

A thing well done is worth doing.

There is only one immutable law in life - in a gentleman's toilet, incoming traffic has the right of way.

Sometimes silence resolves a conversation confused by Mad Misconstruction.

Gossip is more popular than literature.

The problem with Ireland is that it's a country full of genius, but with absolutely no talent.

I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it.

Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed.

An Irishman will always soften bad news, so that a major coronary is no more than 'a bad turn' and a near hurricane that leaves thousands homeless is 'good drying weather'.

In life there exist two classes: first class and no class.

Now, Mr. Great-heart was a strong man, so he was not afraid of a lion.

The silver flask called to him.Blue Coyote Motel

So I took her hand, and I don't know what everybody else heard, but to me it sounded like a slow dance: a little sad, but maybe a little hopeful, too.

More than enough is too much.

It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.

Conversation is not a search after knowledge, but an endeavor at effect.

Great power often corrupts virtue; it invariably renders vice more malignant. . . . In proportion as the powers of government increase, both its own character and that of the people becomes worse.

When you practice a life of non-violence you no longer need seek the truth, the truth finds you.

In America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio.

My relationship to plants becomes closer and closer. They make me quiet; I like to be in their company.