Writers are always anxious, always on the run--from the telephone, from responsibilities, from the distractions of the world.

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.

If we presume that the boundary of the universe is a kind of surrounding wall, then we think like ancestors who thought there's abyss at the edge of flat earth.

I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.

Every theory in medicine, if medicine is to remain healthy, must be beaten out on the anvil of skepticism. So do we weed out charlatanism.

Make peace with the fear of defeat... Fear holds you back from putting forth your best performance.

Don't let anything morph you or push you around or have you be something you're not.

I found it a really refreshing change of pace to suddenly be completely directed. It was a type of collaboration that I don't normally have.

We want the ball, and we’re going to score

What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue.

Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.

Those who carry the vessels of the Lord must be clean, must be holy (Isa. 52:11).