I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk.

If there is a heaven, Jane Austen is sitting in a small room with Mother Teresa and Princess Diana, listening to Duran Duran, forever. If there's a hell, she's standing.

I'm not recognised that much. I'm just a bald man in glasses and there's a rash of them in Dublin. It'd be different if I had a mohican.

You know people are always putting Ulysses in the top 10 books ever written but I doubt that any of those people were really moved by it.

It's a big con job. We have sold the myth of Dublin as a sexy place incredibly well; because it is a dreary little dump most of the time.

Some of the people who look the most normal are probably the maddest people trying to look normal.

Good ideas are often murdered by better ones.

When I'm writing I just think there's only the page and me and nobody else.

If you are a writer you're at home, which means you're out of touch. You have to make excuses to get out there and look at how the world is changing.

It's great meeting children because you never know what they will say.

I wouldn't go out of my way to experience the indignity of middle-age just because it might be good meat for a story.

You are who you position yourself with

Then I thought, boy, isn't that just typical? You wait and wait and wait for something, and then when it happens, you feel sad.

Is that all?" she whispered.Gansey closed his eyes. "That's all there is.

We only live once. Well we might get to live more than just once but we don't and wouldn't know a thing about it even if we do. Therefor we should live our life to the fullest in this life time

Character is the real foundation of all worthwhile success.

I was really lucky to work at CBS news. I was blessed to be able to live my dream in many ways at CBS news.

Sorrow is better than laughter; for, by the sadness of the countenance, the heart is made better.

I actually have more shoes than anyone will ever know.

One of the deep routed motivations for looking at our connection to snow and its journey to our mountains came from Bryan Iguchi, who I rode with a lot when I was just a teenager.