What is life if not a gamble?

My Irish passport makes me look like a chief of staff for the Provisional IRA.

If you want to be happy for life, love what you do.

When an eighty-five pound mammal licks your tears away, then tries to sit on your lap, it's hard to feel sad.

Be proud to be a decent American rather than a wanker whipping up fear.

I love our shared island, our shared Ireland and its core decency. I love it for its imagination and its celebration of the endless possibilities for our people.

The truth is I hate cocktail parties when the only person I know is my supposed date, and he abandons me the minute we come in the door.

When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book.

A good man's life is never quite ended; something of it always remains to touch and illuminate other lives.

The flame of inspiration needs to be encouraged. Put a glass around that small candle and protect it from discouragement or ridicule.

Writing is storytelling. No matter how you slice it, you're saying, 'Once upon a time.' That's what writing is all about.

You're too good for this world, and because of that the world will eventually crush you.

True love is still true, even if you can't live it the way you want to, " I told her.

The evening news is a concept whose time has come and gone.

Too many men are afraid of being fools.

Our immigration system is a broken system that needs to be fixed. We need reform that provides hardworking people of good character with a real path towards citizenship.

We wanted to be as expansive as possible to make sure we didn't preclude some good ideas.

Meditation, in all its forms and traditions, is an invitation to listen, to open, to quietly enlist the courage to be touched and formed by life.

That girl is pretty kinky, the girl's a super-freak, I'd really like to taste her.

Define yourself by what you love.

We wish that we could take magic drugs, play around all day, read, and do nothing strenuous, and be the smartest, happiest people in the world. The truth is, it's all about sweat.