It is necessary to write, that much is clear, and to write in a way quite unlike any way which I have employed before.

That's how vile i am! I live Ireland, I breathe Ireland, and Christ how I loathe it, I wish I were a bloody Scot, that's how bloody awful it is being Irish!

Mercifully one forgets one's love affairs as one forgets one's dreams.

I felt a deep grief that crouched and stayed still as if it was afraid to move.

It was a piece of thoroughly picturesque and proper violence. I like a violent man, really, a man who's a bit of a brute in a decent straightforward way.

Jealousy is perhaps the most involuntary of all strong emotions. It steals consciousness, it lies deeper than thought. It is always there, like a blackness in the eye, it discolours the world.

But it was just luck really if the girls survived. You're like a man firing a machine gun into a supermarket who happens not to become a murderer.

Love doesn't think like that. All right, it's blind as a bat--''Bats have radar. Yours doesn't seem to be working.

For each door of sadness that opens, there are a thousand means of shutting it...

Some people say funny things, but I say things funny.

I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them.

Finally, the president added, 'The American people are idealists, but they also want their leaders to be realistic...'

I love going to all kinds of movies, I screen DVDs in my house, but I go to the theatre a lot in the afternoon. I don't get bugged because there aren't many people around.

I think it's good to have the alone time. Well, I kind of have to, because I have to be alone in order to work, so I have alone time. And then I go on tour and I have being-around-people time.

All my singles went platinum-plus.All my records and videos were groundbreaking.

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

The most beautiful landscape cannot hold my fascinated attention as much as nature by the seaside and all that is connected with water.

Uptown living, you've got to call 911. Where I am, I am 911.