It always came down to his freaking pride.

Kita selalu jumpa orang baik-baik sewaktu mengembara, bukan sebab nasib kita baik. Tapi sebab Tuhan kasihan.

The names of entities that have the power to constrain us change with time. Convention and authority are replaced by infirmity. But my attitude toward them has not changed. Has not changed.

A life allied with mine, for the rest of our lives... that is the miracle of marriage.

Whatever come we have to meet it.

I'm not worried. I'm in control.

Who are you to end a war? I am here to tell you - who are you not to?

We would not give up our own country - Ireland - if we were to get the whole world as an estate, and the Country of the Young along with it.

The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.

I don't really think of my essays as being about myself. I know it sounds insane, but I just don't think of them as a memoir. They're essays; they're not an autobiography.

I open my eyes To my own mistake I see all around me Hands getting raized And Questions remain Silent.