The whiskey kicked like a mugger.

The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.

The Gospel is the walking life, not the walking dead.

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

One must espouse some pursuit, taking it kindly at heart and with enthusiasm.

To accept opinions is to gain the good solid feeling of being correct without having to think.

Our galaxy is 10 billion years old. The Earth is only 4.5 billion years old. We are a firefly flicker in the great astrobiology of the galaxy.

I grew up in Ireland, so I do not have a lot of respect for most politicians.

It is impossible to read for pleasure from something to which you are both father and mother, born in such travail that the writer despises the thing that enslaved him.

The answers we're looking for are all within ourselves, we just need to become better connected, more present - to what we eat, to nature, to our surroundings and to our inner guide.

When money is exchanged for pregnancy, some believe, surrogacy comes close to organ-selling, or even baby-selling.