Of the things which nourish the imagination, humour is one of the most needful, and it is dangerous to limit or destroy it.

There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.

Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her.

I knew the stars, the flowers, and the birds, The gray and wintry sides of many glens, And did but half remember human words, In converse with the mountains, moors, and fens.

The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.

Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty of medieval life.

It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe of a model that has served primitive races since men first went to sea.

A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, for he will be going out on a day when he shouldn't.

They're cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World.

No man at all can be living forever and we must be satisfied.

Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think in many different idioms.

When fiction has become reality, life may turn into a fairy tale or a firestorm. Tina, time has come to pull up one’s socks and start relearning and reassessing living. ("Another empty room")

Choose to be pro-active, assertive and self-defining.

Creating happens in the midst of chaos.

I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the every vote counts.

There are no facts, only stories.

It's easier to tell a lie, than to tell the truth. It's easier to kill a fly, than it is to turn it loose.

My saving grace was that I always knew when to leave the party.

Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired.

Remembered memory is much more powerful than actually having your own memory.

You beat Cancer by how you live.