I love creating stories, dreaming up characters and breathing life into them. From several generations of Irish storytellers, I think that's what I was born to do.

Believe it or not, I even love the editing stage. It's something that apparently comes naturally to me.

The hardest part for me during the creation stage is actually putting words on paper that make sense and tell my story the way I see it. I sometimes feel I am slogging through quicksand when I write.

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

Your life must focus on the maximization of objectivity.

I hate the word proper. If you tell me a thing is not proper, I immediately feel the most rabid desire to go 'neck and heels' into it.

I have had three masters, Nature, Velasquez, and Rembrandt.

Don't look down on them for looking down on us. Look at them, instead, as friends we don't know yet and who don't yet know what they are missing in not knowing us.

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

Great pain, when it is honored from the heart, opens into great understanding.

Why was it that pride and foolishness were so often close companions?

Don't stumble over something behind you.

I don't like defensive shots-you can only get threes