Oh, the testosterone. You could have cut it with a cafeteria spoon.

Better to be strong than pretty and useless.

What you cannot escape, you must fight; what you cannot fight, you must endure.

I went to the entrance to the restroom, where the hallway did a sharp bend so nobody could peek into the girls' pee-palace.

What you can't run away from, you have to face

Are you listening, little bird?

Christophe, with the careful tone of an adult telling a kid not to pet the nice foaming-rabid pooch.

If something is visceral and unsettling for me, my job is to not look away, not to punk out. Sometimes the dark things come from places inside me, experiences Ive had, that need to be transformed.

That's the funny thing about old hurts- they just wait for new heartache to come along and then show up, just as sharp and horrible as the first day you woke up with the world changed all around you.

His eyebrows drew together. He was perilously close to unibrow; I guess nobody had held him down and administered a good plucking to the caterpillar climbing across his forehead.

The only place their voices were left was in my head. It was better than being alone but it was so, so lonely.

Because beauty consits of it's own passing, just as we reach for it. It's the ephemeral configuration of things in the moment, when you can see both their movement and their death.

You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye Who cheer when soldier lads march by, Sneak home and pray you'll never know The hell where youth and laughter go." "The War Poems

For me, the single word "God" suggests everything that is slippery, shady, squalid, foul, and grotesque.

I'm going to be your grandpa! / I have the biggest smile. / I've been waiting to meet you for such a long, long while.

A Kerry footballer with an inferiority complex is one who thinks he's just as good as everybody else.

If a man teach uprightly and walk crookedly, more will fall down in the night of his life than he built in the day of his doctrine.

Indwelling sin always abides whilst we are in this world; therefore it is always to be mortified.

Mozart wrote so many works in his thirty-five years that it would take a lifetime just to write out the notes. We literally do not know how he did it.

I'm supposed to relax and concentrate on the image of myself out there skating my race.

I'm just happy that people have recognised me as leading man material.