Love lives in sealed bottles of regret.

There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.

I have always felt that everybody on earth goes about in disguise.

In the presence of great music we have no alternative but to live nobly.

Stories, like whiskey, must be allowed to mature in the cask.

Celibacy bestows on a man the qualified freedom of a besieged city where one sometimes has to eat rats.

The things I like to find in a story are punch and poetry.

The framework of the artist's ideas is clearly only that which he is forever seeking for universality, and must be far wider than the framework of the ideals of the patriot.

An Irish queer: a fellow who prefers women to drink.

I'm always amazed that people will stand around books for hours and only look at the spine. I think I should write a book called "the power of having a spine" - #metaphor

He could have had his choice of any woman in the district. And he chose solitude. Not solitude – that sounds too peaceful. More like solitary confinement.

Because I miss them. Because I need them. Because I love them.

What I really love about the Playboy bunny outfit, is it's all about a woman's silhouette.

The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.

Curran looked back at me. "Why is it you always attract creeps?" "You tell me." Ha! Walked right into that one, yes, he did.

We are busy surviving, herding, fixating on what just happened, and being overconfident!

God will not be God, if He allowed Himself to be the object of proof by His creatures.

The Rosary is a school of Prayer. The Rosary is a school of Faith.

I was physically abused and I retaliated.