Some of the people who look the most normal are probably the maddest people trying to look normal.

If there is a heaven, Jane Austen is sitting in a small room with Mother Teresa and Princess Diana, listening to Duran Duran, forever. If there's a hell, she's standing.

I'm not recognised that much. I'm just a bald man in glasses and there's a rash of them in Dublin. It'd be different if I had a mohican.

You know people are always putting Ulysses in the top 10 books ever written but I doubt that any of those people were really moved by it.

It's a big con job. We have sold the myth of Dublin as a sexy place incredibly well; because it is a dreary little dump most of the time.

I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk.

Good ideas are often murdered by better ones.

When I'm writing I just think there's only the page and me and nobody else.

If you are a writer you're at home, which means you're out of touch. You have to make excuses to get out there and look at how the world is changing.

It's great meeting children because you never know what they will say.

I wouldn't go out of my way to experience the indignity of middle-age just because it might be good meat for a story.

A word is elegy to what it signifies.

Who you are is why you choose the friends and situations in your life.

God never does anything according to what you want. It's never your will. It's His will.

I would wrestle Hulk Hogan when I'm 50 years old.

People ask me, 'What do you do?' And I tell them I'm a writer, but always with the silent reservation, 'I am, of course, not really a writer. Hemingway was a writer.'

Faith is one of those words that connotes, however irrationally, some kind of virtue in itself.

I think my song about 'I want to have your babies' really does freak a lot of guys out, not just my boyfriend!

Imora thea mi savur," Ash whispered under his breath in Atlantean. God save me from love.

Death is much simpler than birth; it is merely a continuation. Birth is the mystery, not death.

Overseas, kids grow up in a soccer culture. The German player sees the game eons above the American player the same age.