I can literally hear you getting fatter.

You don't touch my face! It's a birth right! This was given to me by God! You do not touch my face!

Even if the character is something that seems ridiculous on paper, there's a human element to everything. Otherwise, we don't connect with it.

If it looks stupid on a rooster, it's probably gonna look stupid on you.

Being intercontinental champion doesn't mean you're a champ. It means you're the future.

It's amazing to see that people came to see you. That, that was their wish.

If you're a foolhardy, braggadocios male figure who wants to charge forward in every fight, it has its pros and its cons, that's for sure.

This face was given to me by God!

The afternoon and the early evening slide by in a lidded daze where the ability to think in any identifiable way disappears and where every moment seems to be an eternity.

But here's what I've learned in this war in this country in this city: to love the miracle of having been born.

I don't want to give the illusion that one day God came down and I was healed.

My first language is Gaelic.

That's how the scientists discover new science. They start out with a hypothesis--an idea--and then others believe enough in the idea that they make it true. You see?

Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.

My career as a magazine writer was largely prefaced on the idea of curiosity, to go on adventures and weasel my way into the lives of people that I admire.

I have no regrets whatsoever that I have acted in a way to advance my country's interests

The traces of our life here will lie cold and still, dreaming, like the brittle eyes of dolls in an abandoned cabin, and the last men will look to them for explanations, or apologies.

A garden makes all our senses swim with pleasure.