Wit can be beautiful, because it expresses and distills an idea.

You don't need a Harvard MBA to know that the bedroom and the boardroom are just two sides of the same ballgame.

You are who you are when nobody's watching.

As I say I don't want to kill myself, I just wouldn't mind dying.

Estate agents: like them or loathe them, you'd be mad not to loathe them.

The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriousity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.

People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t

Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.

Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books

Nothing in this world is at it seems. Except, possibly, porridge.

All the big words -virtue, justice, truth, ...- are dwarfed by the greatness of kindness

For all my longer works (i.e. the novels) I write chapter outlines so I can have the pleasure of departing from them later on.

The wish to pray is a prayer in itself.

Expressing our feelings out loud, especially to someone else, can bring a sense of relief. There is power in proclamation.

You develop a sympathy for all human beings when you travel a lot.

In India and other places, there are people who fool themsleves. They walk around all day saying, "Who am I? Who am I?"

We have to fight off the demons that have been hanging around suicide for centuries.

Relationships are kind of like riding a bull. You hang on for dear life and sometimes you get a little buck here and there ... but you get back on.

Other bands gave us lip service, but when it came down to it they kind of backed off. That was a little disheartening. But I respect them. That's their business.

I'm Irish, for gods sake. I'm a romantic.

Things have gotten so bad in this country, you look back at Richard Nixon with nostalgia.