I realized fear one morning, with the blare of the fox hunter's sound. When they're all chasin' the poor bloody fox, 'tis safer to be dressed like the hound.

My Irish passport makes me look like a chief of staff for the Provisional IRA.

Human beings are not like they are portrayed in Hollywood. They are individuals who are a mixture of good and bad.

I really don't know why the Muslims do what they are doing. Those terrorists don't seem to have a moral code.

Words become meaningless, the mind cuts itself off from reality for a little while, a necessary breathing space until one is ready to cope.

I like when people question if the characters are really villains or protagonists. These types are very interesting to write about.

A world at war is crazy enough for anything to be believable.

The world was a bad joke dreamed up by the Almighty on an off-day. I've always felt myself that he probably had a hangover that morning.

My friend, you are truly yourself alone. God must have broken the mould after turning you out.

May you find what you are searching for, my friend.– I already have and lost it in the finding.

And if it doesn't go like that?– Then all your problems will be over and you won't have a thing to worry.

I can think of few better ways to introduce a child to books than to let her stack them, upend them, rearrange them, and get her fingerprints all over them.

Words have the power to make things true if they're said right.

Kids today are smarter than we ever were. And they've got computers, too, which is awesome. They're scary to me.

It's early yet. It's always early, while you still alive.

I'm an advocate of human nature.

I'll never give up my Dior mascara.

By no means do I want to be a piece of meat for the rest of my career. It's funny when you get asked to do a talk show, and then they follow it up with requesting you take your shirt off.

Some travelers think they want to go to foreign places but are dismayed when the places turn out actually to be foreign.

An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.

The greatest productive force is human selfishness.