The telephone bell was ringing wildly, but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse.

An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy.

There is no possible idea, " Kenneth thought as he came onto the terrace, "to which the mind of man can't supply some damned alternative or other. Yet one must act.

It hurts when you realize you aren’t as important to someone as you thought you were.Deep inside Where nothing’s fine I’ve lost my mind

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

I would ditch school if my CD was scratched up or I couldn't get batteries. I wasn't trying to get on the bus and not be listening to music.

Violence begins where knowledge ends.

We were born to die; we were born to endure, on the way to death, sorrow-sorrow in manifold shapes.

The most misleading assumptions are the ones you don't even know you're making.

It could truly be the case that Vladimir Putin has miscalculated in the long term with his adventure in Syria.

I've worked on jobs where there are almost 200 people on set... you always make an effort to have a relationship but you can't really when there's 200.

I had always assumed the weekend was a holy tradition, respected by good people everywhere. Not so at Wexford.

You can't win. The annoying thing is that you can't attack them, but you can't defend yourself. The best thing you could possibly do is punch a paparazzi and give them their big payday.