It's a natural thing for people to say, you know, Who's in this book? I find myself get ting a little defensive. People come along and I'm waiting for that first question.

My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.

A thing well done is worth doing.

There is only one immutable law in life - in a gentleman's toilet, incoming traffic has the right of way.

Sometimes silence resolves a conversation confused by Mad Misconstruction.

Gossip is more popular than literature.

The problem with Ireland is that it's a country full of genius, but with absolutely no talent.

I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it.

Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed.

An Irishman will always soften bad news, so that a major coronary is no more than 'a bad turn' and a near hurricane that leaves thousands homeless is 'good drying weather'.

In life there exist two classes: first class and no class.

I was made and meant to look for you and wait for you and become yours forever.

Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.

End your day with a smile, a happy thought, and a grateful heart.

They have, and bring with them, that upper-body strength. They have apparently developed that in their childhood and growing up, and they've further advanced in that regard.

More people live off cancer than die from it.

Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled.

I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down since.

Hope is man's preparation for the unknown.

Where religion speaks, reason has only a right to hear.

However widespread the desire to be free, that is wholly different from a desire to live in a society where others are free.