That’s what you get for being food.

I always thought eating was a ridiculous activity anyway. I'd get out of it myself if I could, though you've got to do it to stay alive, they tell me.

What a moron I was to think you were sweet and innocent, when it turns out you were actually college-educated the whole time!

Her metaphors for her children included barnacles encrusting a ship and limpets clinging to a rock.

What else can I do? Once you've gone this far you aren't fit for anything else. Something happens to your mind. You're overqualified, overspecialized, and everybody knows it.

There is no singular truth known to man. All that we know is but a fraction. Truth can only be seen in pieces.

Hiding and waitingFor the worst Or the end

It is easier to counterfeit old age than youth.

The truth is . . . you think what people want you to think.

Irishness is not primarily a question of birth or blood or language; it is the condition of being involved in the Irish situation, and usually of being mauled by it.

I don't think "Reganomics" will ever fully end. I mean, Reaganomics, to put it simply, was trying to get low taxes for wealthy people. And wealthy people are still there pushing for low taxes.

The messenger is not as important as the message.

The thing that impressed everyone when he same on the scene as a 17 year old was he already spoke like a man. (on Michael Owen)

When you go inside something, then you are not with you. You are in the hands of somebody else, and you don't know what they will do with you.

You've always been my equal, Roza.