...people liking you or not liking you is an accident and is to do with them and not you. That goes for love too, only more so.

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.

Good destiny give little time to understand your mistake and change your self But Bad destiny lead you toward bad thing until you destroy life and not give time to change.

There is nothing left but the attempt and not trying is the same as failing.

The heart has always the pardoning power.

Fish and visitors stink in three days.

People are so prone to lean upon gifted men. And if they cannot have such, they get discouraged and scattered, instead of getting lovingly together and helping one another by their mutual faith.

I feel that I've always done things the hard way, and I've always felt a lot of pride in earning everything that I have.

You gotta laugh and love and take all life has to give. You gotta live and learn so you can learn to live.

Adolf Hitler was a Jeanne d'Arc, a saint. He was a martyr. Like many martyrs, he held extreme views.

The life of great geniuses is nothing but a sublime storm.

I've made a life and career as a professional musician.