I came down to the living room one day and my wife was standing in the living room. It wasn't an illusion. I saw her out of the corner of my eye. The moment I saw her, she vanished.

My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.

A thing well done is worth doing.

There is only one immutable law in life - in a gentleman's toilet, incoming traffic has the right of way.

Sometimes silence resolves a conversation confused by Mad Misconstruction.

Gossip is more popular than literature.

The problem with Ireland is that it's a country full of genius, but with absolutely no talent.

I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it.

Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed.

An Irishman will always soften bad news, so that a major coronary is no more than 'a bad turn' and a near hurricane that leaves thousands homeless is 'good drying weather'.

In life there exist two classes: first class and no class.

We must not only obtain Wisdom: we must enjoy her.

...sometimes what you go looking for isn't as important as what you leave behind.

It’s easy to talk about how much you love God, but loving others reveals how much you truly do.

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

I say, if you want to enjoy exquisitely, become a Latter-day Saint, and then live the doctrine of Jesus Christ.

If two or more organs of the body are not squirting fluids, the story's no good!

You are either the best. Or you are the worst. There is no in between.

Politicians generally do the right thing only when all other options are exhausted.

Poetry makes sense of the parts of human experience that are confusing and not decodable in any other way. It makes accessible the inaccessible.

When I first saw the light of day on this planet, it seemed as if I had been rudely awakened from a death-like sleep.