We hide the truer part of ourselves when we love.

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.

Resolved to act right.

We fail to move beyond what is safe, we abandon our dreams in favor of what is sure rather than strive for what is best for us.

A man's hatred is always concentrated upon that which makes him conscious of his bad qualities.

I am a man of my word… and that word is “unreliable.

We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.

There is nothing so lowering to one's self-esteem as the affectionate contempt of a beloved cat.

God is the brave man's hope, and not the coward's excuse.

If you want to do evil, science provides the most powerful weapons to do evil; but equally, if you want to do good, science puts into your hands the most powerful tools to do so

I'm not really fond of the trails left in the sky and a lot of chemicals that are being pumped through factories and even in the clothes we wear.

Pleasure puts you to sleep and pain wakes you up. If you don't want to suffer, don't go to sleep.