In architecture, Palladio is the game. It means hard thought all through - if it is labored, it fails.

There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.

And any stone being mentally handled must become endowed with such poetry and artistry as God has given you.

A garden scheme should have a backbone - a central idea beautifully phrased.

There will never be great architects or architecture without great patrons.

Every garden scheme should have a backbone, a central idea beautifully phrased. Every wall, path, stone and flower should have its relationship to the central idea.

...Absorbed in the new scents, the sounds, and the sunlight...

I believe in supremacy of God.

We were raised right in the heart of the Bogside. Everything was so bad at the time that Mammy would bring us to the pantomime, circus, concerts because we were so confined at home.

I never compliment the other pitcher. I make my living off pitchers.

There is no light without shadow, and no psychic wholeness without imperfection.

But seriously, I think overall in the scheme of things winning an Emmy is not important. Let's get our priorities straight. I think we all know what's really important in life - winning an Oscar.

Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens.

That's the hard work of writing. The imagining.

I tend to fly a bit under the radar.

it is only to the extent that we are willing to expose ourselves again and again to annihilation that we are able to find that part of ourselves that is indestructible.