I felt a deep grief that crouched and stayed still as if it was afraid to move.

That's how vile i am! I live Ireland, I breathe Ireland, and Christ how I loathe it, I wish I were a bloody Scot, that's how bloody awful it is being Irish!

Mercifully one forgets one's love affairs as one forgets one's dreams.

It was a piece of thoroughly picturesque and proper violence. I like a violent man, really, a man who's a bit of a brute in a decent straightforward way.

It is necessary to write, that much is clear, and to write in a way quite unlike any way which I have employed before.

Jealousy is perhaps the most involuntary of all strong emotions. It steals consciousness, it lies deeper than thought. It is always there, like a blackness in the eye, it discolours the world.

But it was just luck really if the girls survived. You're like a man firing a machine gun into a supermarket who happens not to become a murderer.

Love doesn't think like that. All right, it's blind as a bat--''Bats have radar. Yours doesn't seem to be working.

It was odd but I couldn't jump the chasm of missing evidence to the conclusion Todd was making.

You can scoff at opinions. You can reject hypotheses. You can discard theories out of hand. But you cannot reject the facts

It is the leader’s job to model and enforce the values and behaviors that make up the company culture. “Model” the behaviors is key. “Do as I say” only breeds contempt from others.

If man could be crossed with a cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.

I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

What they don't teach you in art school is how your whole life is about discovering who you already were.

If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.

Some people say they love animals and yet harm them nonetheless; I'm glad those people don't love me.

For all good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates ... in the soul, and overflows from thence, as from the head into the eyes.

I don't think I've ever put it in words before. But daddy took a gun and ended his life and took momma's with him.