Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.

A good man giving bad advice is more dangerous than a nasty man giving bad advice.

In the last century the Arab thinker Jamal al-Afghani wrote: 'Every Muslim is sick and his only remedy is in the Koran.' Unfortunately the sickness gets worse the more the remedy is taken.

You are not an agnostic.....You are just a fat slob who is too lazy to go to Mass.

Irishness is not primarily a question of birth or blood or language; it is the condition of being involved in the Irish situation, and usually of being mauled by it.

Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything.

Nothing does more to activate Christian divisions than talk about Christian unity.

You can safely appeal to the UN in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.

The sea which we think of separating the two island actually joins them.

Success teaches us nothing only failure teaches.

Be glad while you have breath.

I threw my hand over my mouth and blurted out the first best excuse I could come up with, “Morning breath!

I coach young people. I have a group called BTP - Broadway Theatre Project.

The British have always coped without becoming a dictatorship.

You can talk any redneck into a challenge. That’s why so many rednecks die in strange ways.

We're getting used to reality and fantasy passing into each other. Much of the border between them has been erased.

Comedy is tragedy revisited or hostility. It is mock hostility, of course, or it would be ugly; we would have a war.

People forget what a big issue toilet training is for adults and kids, and it is not fun, especially when you're in a car on the interstate.

I'm sick of being known as the sexy guy that writes great songs.