It’s very difficult to feel contempt for others when you see yourself in the mirror.

One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all.

There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.

All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage.

The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.

Language in art remains a highly ambiguous transaction, a quicksand, a trampoline, a frozen pool which might give way under you ... at any time.

Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.

I don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most charming man and I used to send him my plays.

I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.

Don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?

This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.

For God must have more important universal matters to attend to than keeping himself busy with us, people! God is not interested in local matters!

The Lord only praises the person who multiplies what has been given to him.

If you want a place in the sun you've got to put up with a few blisters.

Jesus brought forth men's greatest efforts by the promise of obstacles not rewards.

If I felt we had alienated the Unionists, it would worry me because we've spent a great deal of time trying to open up discussion and dialogue with the Unionist Parties.

Beat a man with what he doesn't know.

As my doctor said, eventually your eyes do start to give out on you if you're not taking care of them.

Nowadays anyone with a crap laptop and an Internet connection can sound their barbaric yawp, whatever it may be.

Cats possess so many of the same qualities as some poeple that it is often hard to tell the people and the cats apart.

I hear a drum in my soul's ear coming from the depth of the stars.