I'm just saying, take courage. That and pretty much that alone is never the incorrect thing to do.

Not watching TV gets me in a lot of trouble in my household because my wife and daughter have a lot of shows they like to watch.

Ireland starts for me with the end of The Dead, which my father read to me from his desk in his basement office in New Albany, Ind.

We live in such constant nearness to the abyss of past time that the moment is endlessly sucked into.

What’s old doesn’t need to be old-fashioned. It gets reborn.

Reporting provides reminders that things are always more complicated than you think.

It is a curious fact that the word essayist showed up in English before it existed in French.

At GQ, there was never a temptation to pander or preach to the choir because I had no concept of who the reader was or what that reader might want.

Freaky things happen all the time in the world. I suppose everything has to happen for the first time at some point.

The city of Cork - the urban center, where all the shops and bars and everything are - is actually an island, a river island.

A good writer wants from us — or has no right to ask more than — intelligence, good faith and time.

Women do amazing, creative, wonderful things.

I have wept in the nightAt my shortness of sightThat to others' needs made me blind, But I never have yetHad a twinge of regretFor being a little too kind.

Hip-hop is about the brilliance of pavement poetry.

I'm obviously an American citizen. My parents are American citizens. But I'm not looked at as an American.

For me now, what I've come to is, we don't know anything.

All religions are like precious pearls strung on the golden thread of divinity.

There is hardly a more heart-thrilling pleasure enjoyed by mortals, than that which parents feel when seeing their child first being able to 'catch knowledge of objects.

In the long run, doing work that's important leads to more happiness than doing work that's merely profitable.

I wish I could stop being in love with Sam. I really do.

China is a keen observer of trends elsewhere in the world, and it's going to give our own innovators a run for their money.