She said the reason that love is so painful is that it always amounts to two people wanting more than two people can give.

It is increasingly clear that the fate of the universe will come to depend more and more on individuals as the bungling of bureaucracy permeates every corner of our existence.

History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders.

When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.

The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.

Ordinary life bypassed me, but I also bypassed it. It couldn't have been any other way.Conventional life and conventional people are not for me.

Writing is like carrying a fetus.

never forget this moment, the hum of the bee, the saffron threads of the flower, the drawn blinds, nature's assiduousness and human cruelty.

... a country encapsulates our childhood and those lanes, byres, fields, flowers, insects, suns, moons and stars are forever reoccurring.

Promiscuity is the death of love.

I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.

People want things to be complicated, but they have to love themselves first and then each other and then it will seed everywhere

They all had their own struggles and stories to tell and they al made it to this point, happy and in love.

I believe that you cannot go any further than you can think. I certainly believe if you don't desire a thing you will never get it.

I forgive you," I said. I said what I had to. I would die by pieces to save myself from real death.

Look at the results of regime change in Iraq. You can't possibly claim that it was successful.

God never gave man a thing to do concerning which it were irreverent to ponder how the Son of God would have done it.

My experience of people is that they are infinitely forgivable.

Hip-hop can be a very closed-off community. Sometimes these barriers are demographic but it can be musical, too.

There are different types of love, and my love for my child is like me and my mum. We've gone through a lot of rocky patches, but we never stop loving.

The same camera that photographs a murder scene can photograph a beautiful society affair at a big hotel.