There was I, devouring books and yet allowing a man who had never read a book to walk me home for a bit of harmless fumbling on the front steps.

It is increasingly clear that the fate of the universe will come to depend more and more on individuals as the bungling of bureaucracy permeates every corner of our existence.

History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders.

When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.

The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.

Ordinary life bypassed me, but I also bypassed it. It couldn't have been any other way.Conventional life and conventional people are not for me.

Writing is like carrying a fetus.

never forget this moment, the hum of the bee, the saffron threads of the flower, the drawn blinds, nature's assiduousness and human cruelty.

... a country encapsulates our childhood and those lanes, byres, fields, flowers, insects, suns, moons and stars are forever reoccurring.

Promiscuity is the death of love.

I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.

I want to tell them that almost dying is awfully easy. Its the living that's hard.

Diligence is God’s principle

My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.

I've always maintained terrorism passes through Pakistan, it doesn't evolve in Pakistan.

Fashion is made to become unfashionable.

In Hollywood - and indeed, the world - a lot of women only think about themselves in the context of men. It's truly sad.

The owner of a local cannabis café told reporters George Clooney was no stranger there.

To know you are among people whom you love, and who love you – that has made all the successes wonderful, much more wonderful than they'd have been anyway.

I wonder can I carry on with the speed of the world without you in it.

I don't want to look at myself - ever. All I see is that my face is a problem. It's asymmetrical. I get terrible bags under my eyes.