Human beings are pattern-seeking animals. It's part of our DNA. That's why conspiracy theories and gods are so popular: we always look for the wider, bigger explanations for things.

Who do you think's after you, Shane, my lad? Or is it just the dark you're afeared of?

more guilt, guilt, guilt. That's the Irish condition.

He was one of those characters who felt that a weak handshake could somehow damage his authority, which meant that every handshake had to bloody hurt.

There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.

The survival of my own ideas may not be as important as a condition I might create for others’ ideas to be realized.

I love Sutton House in Clapton, a beautiful example of Tudor architecture.

It has taken me 20 years to eliminate the unnecessary elements from my work.

Holy Men! Holy Cabbages! Holy Bean Pods! What do they do but live and suck in sustenance and grow fat?

I don't do politics. I just like to laugh.

It just feels to me like the death throes of an America that had many great things about it, but had many negative things about it. I don't want to go back.

Your past does not determine who you are. Your past prepares you for who you are to become.

I've been stabbed before. Barely a week ago, in fact. AND I've been audited, AND I come from a broken home. In short - no offense, shorty - you don't scare me.

The devil is a liar. I said the devil is a liar. Don't make me preach now, but you are the living epistle, the written word of Christ.