When I'm writing I just think there's only the page and me and nobody else.

If there is a heaven, Jane Austen is sitting in a small room with Mother Teresa and Princess Diana, listening to Duran Duran, forever. If there's a hell, she's standing.

I'm not recognised that much. I'm just a bald man in glasses and there's a rash of them in Dublin. It'd be different if I had a mohican.

You know people are always putting Ulysses in the top 10 books ever written but I doubt that any of those people were really moved by it.

It's a big con job. We have sold the myth of Dublin as a sexy place incredibly well; because it is a dreary little dump most of the time.

I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk.

Some of the people who look the most normal are probably the maddest people trying to look normal.

Good ideas are often murdered by better ones.

If you are a writer you're at home, which means you're out of touch. You have to make excuses to get out there and look at how the world is changing.

It's great meeting children because you never know what they will say.

I wouldn't go out of my way to experience the indignity of middle-age just because it might be good meat for a story.

Every man engaged in war tells himself he can alter what has been written, that it is he, not God, who is the maker of destiny, free to change what is meant to be.

Miracle is going to WORK with you, only if you are going to do same with Miracle..!!

The mere fact that a very large number of people believe such a thing and that the world would be a better place if it were true, is no reason for believing that it is true.

Tom DeLay may or may not have broken campaign finance laws, but he did his best to look like he was breaking them.

True happiness means forging a strong spirit that is undefeated, no matter how trying our circumstances.

Writing is very castrating in the moment. Fiction in general, it has no function, nobody asks for it.

The strength of even the strongest individual can always be overpowered by the many, who often will combine for no other purpose than to ruin strength precisely because of its peculiar independence.

There is no inconsistency in saying that God rewards good works, provided we understand that nevertheless men obtain eternal life gratuitously.

Everything that has befallen you happened simply cause it crossed your mind.

Thank you everyone for your kind words, support and prayers!! I'm hurting right now but it's great to know good people have my back!!