He knew the world and its absurdities as only an intelligent Irishman can; which is to say that where his knowledge or memory failed him, his imagination was always ready to fill the gap.

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

The profoundest distances are never geographical.

There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.

Time is not a road - it is a room.

The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented.

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.

An answer is always a form of death.

The fear of Mortality is the base of Immortality

We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.

Religion is about increasing peace and harmony in the world. ... People of all different religions should be given the opportunity to pursue good in their own way.

I believe in MasterPeace. World leaders cannot push back armed conflict alone. We need the whole world to make this happen.

I think there's always room to grow.

Play until it's time to rest, then rest until it's time to play.

The most satisfying thing in my life and my career is to work with my children.

Our children are not going to be just 'our children' - they are going to be other people's husbands and wives and the parents of our grandchildren.

The digital revolution has had a democratizing effect. Now anyone can be a filmmaker, but to be a good filmmaker is as hard as it ever was.

I don't want to play fat cops for the rest of my life.