When something has been perfect, there is a tendency to try hard to repeat it.

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.

When you go to church, you are supposed to go to church to invest in people or to invest in yourself.

I tried to understand you... I tried with the best codes to upgrade myself... but I more likely become a victim on myself.

God wants to bless His church by blessing His people.

I'm not a big radio guy, I don't listen to whatever is the hip new thing.

The intoxication of the faro drinker only shows itself at first by an increase in noise which is only deafening, and finally by a silent deterioration of the mind.

Practice only makes for improvement.

Good people in the West have often failed to distinguish between Islam and Islamism.

There are only two hard things in photography; which way to point the camera and when to release the shutter.

The process is the reality.

Real power... comes not from hate, but from truth.