If Blake said that, said Father Brian, he never lived in Dublin.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.

Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.

Why dwell on negative thoughts? When you can think positively.

Make time to relax, refresh and refocus.

I really enjoy taking an outdoor shower.

You know there are moments such as these when time stands still and all you do is hold your breath and hope it will wait for you.

Folk music had long been political but [Bob] Dylan's poetry took it to a new level.

What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, is much more common where the climate's sultry.

The only sensible approach to disease and insect control, I think, is to grow sturdy crops in a healthy environment.

It is important to integrate immigrants into society and to welcome them in the church community

TV programmes are so bad these days, even idiots are getting rid of their idiot boxes.

Success is not the measure of a man but a triumph over those who choose to hold him back.