I like books that are exciting and that make you think about things, as well.

I think if my child died I would prefer it if I were dead.

Learning is the most important thing, no mater how you do it, or where you do it, or who you do it with.

The written word can be powerful and beautiful - but films transport us to another place in a way that even the most evocative words never can.

I try as best as I can to have a normal life. People recognise you, of course, and that's very strange. But I sort of leave my working life behind when I go home. That's my other world.

Everyone thinks I'm ethereal. But I'm not like that, you know. I'm not ethereal. Well, I might have a little bit of that quality to me, that 'old soul' thing, but I'm not ethereal.

If you don't have eyebrows, you don't really have a face.

The 1916 uprising was kind of the most important rebellion in Ireland's fight for independence that had been going on for 700 years. So it's a very important moment in history for us.

I've never really felt like I was a child actor. Just an actor who happened to be quite young.

My name means freedom in Irish.

It's too distracting to read about yourself. You want to be perfect and you want everyone to love you, and that's never going to happen.

There's no hope of people paying attention to your music video if you don't let others use it.

Otherwise, everything got better and better, just one surprise after another. And that's why I wrote the book about a matter of being in the right place at the right time, and just luck.

We will ensure that E-Verify is used to the fullest extent possible under existing law, and will work with Congress to strengthen and expand its use across the country.

The printed page transcends space and time. The printed page, the infinity of the book, must be transcended.

The world, in truth, is a wedding.

Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning can only produce writing that matches what they do. And that includes me.

Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want.

Stars will continue to shine even when you are inside the mud; the universe does not care about you!

I think Mitch Hedberg is one of the great comedians of the past 20 years.

Microsoft, Apple, Facebook all bought huge patent portfolios to further their strategic game. They're doing what I'm doing!