The minutes ticked past. This is why peelers need a book. A wee paperback to stick in your pocket.

Human beings are pattern-seeking animals. It's part of our DNA. That's why conspiracy theories and gods are so popular: we always look for the wider, bigger explanations for things.

Drawing Dead is a brilliant noir from one of Australia's most exciting new novelists.

Who do you think's after you, Shane, my lad? Or is it just the dark you're afeared of?

more guilt, guilt, guilt. That's the Irish condition.

He was one of those characters who felt that a weak handshake could somehow damage his authority, which meant that every handshake had to bloody hurt.

I don't know if that's a year's bad luck, or if that's how it works. But stealing a Christmas tree - that can't be a good thing, karma-wise.

Hot hate is twin brother to hot love.

I think, as an artist, whether you're making people laugh or cry or be frustrated or excited - the fact that you're generating some sort of emotion out of an audience is, to me, worth it.

One of my main goals in life is to make those that believed in me look extremely brilliant.

There is only one better thing than music - live music.

The biggest misconception is that sometimes activists have to be loud and are radical to get their message across.

One Man's food is another Man's Poison

My tunes and numbers are here. They have filled my years, the years when I refused to die. And in order to do that I wrote, I wrote, I wrote, at noon or 3:00 A.M. So as not to be dead.

If I pick up a fiddle, I don't compose on it, so much as I just play whatever.

I'm not too proud of the movies I made as a grownup except for 'That Hagen Girl', which nobody remembers but which gave me a chance to act.

Forget not bees in winter, though they sleep.