I see [my pen] as an extension of my musculature. It's like being a painter. It's the closest I can get to my breath.

One of the ways to reincarnate is to tell your story.

I knew I couldn't live in America and I wasn't ready to move to Europe so I moved to an island off the coast of America - New York City .

I'm kind of this control freak that likes to create his own hells before the real one can get to him

Everything is contingent, and there is also chaos.

How theraputic it is to surrond yourself with people stranger than yourself.

I was darkly convinced that at age 52 I would kill myself because my mother committed suicide at that age. I was fantasizing that she was waiting for me on the other side of the grave.

Real life has always let me down. That's why I do the monologues. I have always said I would rather tell a life than live a life. But I have to live a life in order to tell one.

If I can make people laugh it's like being a good lover.

The only thing I don't doubt is my doubt.

I refer to jet lag as 'jet-psychosis - there's an old saying that the spirit cannot move faster than a camel.

Nay, he needs a woman, not a girl. And Laoghaire will be a girl when she’s fifty.

Delay gratification is what will give us patience and long suffering.

If we are to grow in love, the prisons of our egoism must be unlocked. This implies suffering, constant effort and repeated choices.

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

I hope to become a better teacher. I love teaching.

as I became Speaker in 1986, I made a point of setting up a public information office to respond to requests and provide information about Parliament and how it functions.

I made my first song when I was 9 years old. Just beating on garbage cans, having people beat box.

The bite of existence did not cut into one in Hollywood.

Reason is always weak where prejudice is strong.

Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.