Trouble trouble and it will trouble you.

The Irish, as a race, have the oral tradition in their blood. A direct question to them is an anathema, but in other cases, a mere syllable of a hero's name will elicit whole chapters of stories.

Don't you know that everybody's got a Fairyland of their own?

There’s great beauty on this world if you just have the eyes to see it.

All of us are subject to being passive to the social ills around us. It's a struggle not to become, by staying silent, an accomplice.

A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.

More and more I’ve become convinced that the great treasure to possess is the unknown.

Child and serpent, star and stone — all one.

If we are going to teach the world to stop hating the different, the other, then we’re going to have to start with children.

Once we have accepted the story we cannot escape the story's fate.

Tea is balm for the soul, don't you agree?

If you write about a place, you need to be right about the place!

When you see a child starving and you think government failed. But I think God failed, could not even fill the hunger of a child.

In various fields, such as science, technology, sports, business and the arts, immigrants enrich our culture every single day.

Every state need not start with state policing if they can't fund it.

I have ideas of subjects and atmospheres that I love. I either want to go in a tougher, stronger direction or do the opposite: simple ballads.

I believe we're all in denial about the people we love.

What are you smiling at?’ - ‘Oh, nothing much. Just my hero

Being on a sitcom stops me from getting Alzheimer's.

It's a sin to bore people.

Don't always use PAIN that you receive as an excuse to GIVE PAIN.