... a country encapsulates our childhood and those lanes, byres, fields, flowers, insects, suns, moons and stars are forever reoccurring.

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.

Promiscuity is the death of love.

I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.

In a way Winter is the real Spring - the time when the inner things happen, the resurgence of nature.

Ladies haven't the luxury of being squeamish about blood.

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

You have to take the horror seriously but there's gags aplenty. Most people, when they do horror it's just grim.

Be fearless. Have the courage to take risks. Go where there are no guarantees.

Sometimes all you can do is say, 'Wow.'

Holidays do bring out the craziness in everyone. This time of year tends to being out the insanity in otherwise normal people.

If we had less statemanship we could get along with fewer battleships.

The theater is reaching as many different demographics as it can now.

Dryden 's genius was of that sort which catches fire by its own motion; his chariot wheels get hot by driving fast.

Keep praying, even if you have only a whisper left.