Sensible men are all of the same religion. Religious sentiments cannot be stirred up within righteous people of any religion for instigating them to do wrong to their own or fellow brethrens”.

No human relation gives one possession in another—every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone.

Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?

I am always trying to figure God out so that I can figure Him in. But after a while I figure that I should just let God be God, and figure that He’ll figure it all out anyway.

There is always a way.

. . . for a good story, told often enough puts you in rooms you've never occupied.

I think of myself as a freewheeling bisexual,' - Magnus Bane

Destiny is for losers. It's just a lame excuse for letting things happen to you instead of making them happen.

And mothers are usually quite trustworthy, as long as your their son. Otherwise look out!

Saying the lion is kind of the beasts says something about lions and also something about kings.

The arts are very alive in Ireland, so that had its influence on me. But I consider myself European, really.