I think the Northern Ireland accent is one of the most beautiful in the world.

The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.

I write about what I know; and I write about things that are new to me, and that I didn't know before.

The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our own.

Long ago, long ago. The simple things come back to us. They rest for a moment by our ribcages then suddenly reach in and twist our hearts a notch backward.

There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water - it has a memory of what it once filled, always trying to get back to the original stream.

There's a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we've left it.

We have to admire the world for not ending on us.

It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.

Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.

Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn't matter -- it was none of those things, he said, and it had to be fought for.

They say I look and sound ugly but I don't be carin.

Practice and enlightenment are not two.

I'm not even fifty yet, but I still feel like Instagram and Spotify - I'm trying to stay with it! It's not easy. The world is going so fast.

Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.

One of the great things about Ben & Jerry's for me is that not only is it delicious, but I get it for free.

The enemy of joy is not suffering, it is idolatry.

Let there be more corn and more meat and let there be no hydrogen bombs at all.

We were never friends. Not for a second. I loved you.

Shutup, lapdog, this isn’t your fight, either. Boy, you better counsel that tongue before you find yourself without it.

Let us honor if we can the vertical man, though we value none but the horizontal one