My wife and I have enjoyed over forty years of wedded blitz.

My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.

A thing well done is worth doing.

There is only one immutable law in life - in a gentleman's toilet, incoming traffic has the right of way.

Sometimes silence resolves a conversation confused by Mad Misconstruction.

Gossip is more popular than literature.

The problem with Ireland is that it's a country full of genius, but with absolutely no talent.

I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it.

Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed.

An Irishman will always soften bad news, so that a major coronary is no more than 'a bad turn' and a near hurricane that leaves thousands homeless is 'good drying weather'.

In life there exist two classes: first class and no class.

What we see, what we say, and what we think is what we get.

A hand fought best when it made a fist.

It is the absence of hope, which equals the despair that is the punishment.

Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.

One of the shocks of a 50th birthday is realizing the fundamental fact that your youth is irrevocably over.

Travel makes all men countrymen, makes people noblemen and kings, every man tasting of liberty and dominion.

When has the pope ever questioned the faith of another private citizen?

There is a sense that animated movies are suddenly a genre. I just don't believe they are; it's a technique to tell a story.

Clothing is viral, impermanent in a way that public art cannot be. So I like thinking of how corporate-created clothing can be seen as a form of public art.

Lord, I want to be up in my heart.