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.

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.

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

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.

I'm afraid that surprise, shock, and regret is the fate of authors when they finally see themselves on the page.

The only way to know the honesty of any person is to love them without desire.

The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of considerable importance, particularly in military affairs.

I think that one way of diffusing an insult is to turn it around and laugh at yourself - that's a way of coping with it - and another is to just ignore it.

I'm a frightened little cat that learned to act like a lion

Many writers secretly long to be performers. You always get the 'if you weren't a writer' question. I would be a back-up singer, to stand in the back and go like 'do, do, do.

Rock was always part of my heart and soul. But the times just changed and everybody wanted to dance.

I love Elmore Leonard. To me, True Romance is basically like an Elmore Leonard movie.

No one's laughing at God -We're all laughing with God.

I believe in people living their lives and having privacy.