Dublin was turning into Disneyland with super-pubs, a Purgatory open till five in the morning.

I feel these days like a very large flamingo. No matter what way I turn, there is always a very large bill.

If you do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got. If what you are doing is not working, do something else.

Politics' the polite word for antediluvian prejudices, the rags put on by enmity and tribal resentment.

Love and freedom are such hideous words. So many cruelties have been done in their name.

Everything is in the way the material is composed.

The Christ of Bethlehem is the Christ of Galilee, is the Christ of the Crucifixion, is the Christ of the Resurrection, is the Christ of the Eucharist

Beliefs: Those things we hold to be true despite evidence to the contrary.

(The short story) is a form that has all the power of the novel - some would say more - but none of the self-importance.

Are we to have a church in which everyone's judgment is equal to everyone else's? That's not a church, it's chaos. Common sense dictates that you keep the fox out of the chicken coop.

It is not a matter of ends justifying means: but of the creation of new means and new ends.

There were some problems only coffee and ice cream could fix.

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.

The rich diversity of the world's cultures reflects a corresponding diversity in the wilds that gave them birth.

If it's the last thing I do, I will give every ounce of the rest of my life to helping leaders and churches get better.

I love the culture of grilling. It creates an atmosphere that is festive but casual.

My feelings are those of a schoolboy getting in sight of the holidays. Or more seriously, my feelings are perhaps those of a matador who has decided not to enter the bull ring.

God creates the animals, man creates himself.

Few ideas are in themselves practical. It is for want of imagination in applying them that they fail. The creative process does not end with an idea-it only starts with an idea.