Don't you know that everybody's got a Fairyland of their own?

The Irish, as a race, have the oral tradition in their blood. A direct question to them is an anathema, but in other cases, a mere syllable of a hero's name will elicit whole chapters of stories.

There’s great beauty on this world if you just have the eyes to see it.

All of us are subject to being passive to the social ills around us. It's a struggle not to become, by staying silent, an accomplice.

A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.

More and more I’ve become convinced that the great treasure to possess is the unknown.

Child and serpent, star and stone — all one.

If we are going to teach the world to stop hating the different, the other, then we’re going to have to start with children.

Once we have accepted the story we cannot escape the story's fate.

Tea is balm for the soul, don't you agree?

I was raised to believe that everybody has a responsibility to their community.

Give a man a teacher

I have a friend who likes to date younger women because their stories are shorter. Old men like us, our stories are longer.

The good thing about being old is not being young.

The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band

Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace

It’s not really pressure, unless you’re not prepared.

What is life if a man cannot count on his friends when he has gone mad?

It is wisdom to think upon anything before we execute it.

My goal was never to get re-elected.

What I tell people is be the best version of yourself in anything that you do. You don't have to live anybody else's story.