There has been no lack of courage in Ireland; there never is, but even our courage has a fatal quality.

Sometimes it seems your ever-increasing list of things to do can leave you feeling totally undone.

Perhaps it’s true, my happiest moments are the anticipation of other moments still to come.

Motherhood: the days are long, the years are short.

in my skimmings over fiction I cannot recall any writer so continuously implicated in his own work as George Moore.

Finish Well

Let this moment whisper through eternity. Let it fill my every dream and visit me each night.

There was this funny thing of anything could happen now that we realized everything had.

I'm most comfortable in my birthday suit.

If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.

If I were a writer and not a singer in 10 years, I don't know how I'd feel about writing really personal songs and getting someone else to sing them.

Dinner at the Huntercombes' possessed only two dramatic features - the wine was a farce and the food a tragedy.

If you eat enough books, you start pooping out words.

There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.

You still need to save but being debt-free in retirement is and should be a goal.