In a way Winter is the real Spring - the time when the inner things happen, the resurgence of nature.

It is increasingly clear that the fate of the universe will come to depend more and more on individuals as the bungling of bureaucracy permeates every corner of our existence.

History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders.

When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.

The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.

Ordinary life bypassed me, but I also bypassed it. It couldn't have been any other way.Conventional life and conventional people are not for me.

Writing is like carrying a fetus.

never forget this moment, the hum of the bee, the saffron threads of the flower, the drawn blinds, nature's assiduousness and human cruelty.

... a country encapsulates our childhood and those lanes, byres, fields, flowers, insects, suns, moons and stars are forever reoccurring.

Promiscuity is the death of love.

I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.

To think what is true, to sense what is beautiful and to want what is good, hereby the spirit finds purpose of a life in reason.

The important thing isn't the soundness or otherwise of the argument, but for it to make you think.

Patience is a crucial but rare investment commodity.

... freedom is a conquest, always partial, always precarious, always challenged. ... the freest person is the one with the most hope.

our longing is our pledge, and blessed are the homesick, for they shall come home.

Let me repeat: Observe a particle as a wave, and it is a wave. Observe it as matter, and it is matter. ... Thus it is our point of view, the way we look at reality that makes reality the way it is.

Dudes know I'm not a threat. Chicks know I'm not a threat.

You can't just be in one thing and be comfortable in that one thing. You have to understand multiple things and how they all connect.

When you have a great audience, you can just keep going and finding new things.

There's about to be a shift in your life. Get ready for your blessings. You've been through enough and a breakthrough is on the way. Don't doubt it, just claim it!