My favorite foods are things that aren't great to eat, like pizza.

Instead of being a teacher, I got a job with a company called Bain & Co., consulting firm, and they taught me how to build businesses.

I often leave... You see, I'm not angry nor hold grouches at what they do. It makes me angry that they would get mad if I did what they do.

It is impossible on reasonable grounds to disbelieve miracles.

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

I think Catholicism took root very quickly in Ireland because it's a very superstitious religion, the holy ghost, the holy spirit, it has a goddess, very visual, the music.

When a writer has done the best that he can do, he should then withdraw from the book-writing business and take up an honest trade like shoe repair, cattle stealing, or screwworm management.

I am annoyed to find myself continually described by people whom I have never set eyes on as bad-tempered.

Galás is a great artist with a very powerful voice.

He truly sorrows who sorrows unseen.

I could not hear what they say about me, my 2 Stanley Cup rings were stuffed in my ears.

I think it's ultimately inhuman to only see things for their functionality. We want things to be more than that. The desire for beauty is something that's in us, and it's not trivial.