I'm a tuning fork, tense and twanging all the time.

It is increasingly clear that the fate of the universe will come to depend more and more on individuals as the bungling of bureaucracy permeates every corner of our existence.

History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders.

When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.

The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.

Ordinary life bypassed me, but I also bypassed it. It couldn't have been any other way.Conventional life and conventional people are not for me.

Writing is like carrying a fetus.

never forget this moment, the hum of the bee, the saffron threads of the flower, the drawn blinds, nature's assiduousness and human cruelty.

... a country encapsulates our childhood and those lanes, byres, fields, flowers, insects, suns, moons and stars are forever reoccurring.

Promiscuity is the death of love.

I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.

Happiness is a warm puppy.

When I wake up every morning, I thank God for the new day.

Ego is constantly attempting to acquire and apply the teachings of spirituality for its own benefit.

No matter how organized your ducks are, life can turn on 2 seconds. So, you can't keep on waiting. Because, if you keep on waiting, it's gone.

Why people pick me for the roles that they do is a bit of a mystery.

They will kill me but they will not kill my voice, because it will be the voice of all Afghan women. You can cut the flower, but you cannot stop the coming of spring.

I didn't get into entertainment until I was like 31. I didn't star in a movie until I was 46.

We neglect those things which are under our very eyes, and heedless of things within our grasp, pursue those which are afar off.

If photography is to be likened to perception, this is not because the former is a natural process but because the latter is also coded.

The bird That glads the night had cheer'd the listening groves with sweet complainings.