If you find something that you feel you belong to, become a groupie and a fan, and then a critic.

It's not enough that you move through the world - you must change it to suit your expectations.

In Ireland we have a very old saying, When you can see the mountains it's going to rain and when you can't see the mountains it's raining.

Women truly are better than men. Otherwise, they'd be intolerable.

I feel like a divorced wife once my book is published and has left me, and hate to be brought back into intimate contact!

You need to earn the right to promote.

Culture itself is neither education nor law-making: it is an atmosphere and a heritage.

If you have a problem where you have just poverty, long-term insurance benefits for an emergency aren't going to solve that either. You have got to fix the social safety net.

I won't do anything bad, and I resent very deeply bad people who haven't got the ability, who try to interfere with the kind of work I'm trying to do because nobody's going to benefit from it.

By the wicked the good conduct of others is always dreaded.

The difference between fiction and journalism is that you can disguise the characters, so you won't get your legs broken, and there's no interview tapes to transcribe.