It was a fictional story, but like any good fiction, without the need to adjust or conceal the truth, it actually might bethe greatest expression of truth.

We live and learn, and in betweenwe do the best we can.

The rest of the short walk was silent. It was that loud sortof silence where the absence is painful, when there’s so much tosay, but nothing is said.

I like slang words, straight to the point. I like words of wisdom, straight to the heart.

The human condition means that we can zone out and forget what the hell we're doing.

I take away his weapon. Both of them.

In Ireland, I don't get asked out much. English boys are a lot more flirty.

Don't get stressed over the little things and make sure you're enjoying life to the fullest.

Greatness is what we on the brink of.

I don't really have preferred roles except those with some complexity.

What unthankfulness is it to forget our consolations, and to look upon matters of grievance. To think so much upon two or three crosses as to forget an hundred blessing.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?

The highest-income Americans don't need tax-free health insurance, mortgage interest deductions or deferred taxation on retirement funds.