I can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true.

People do not change, they are merely revealed.

Only bad writers think that their work is really good.

Write whatever way you like. Fiction is made of words on a page; reality is made of something else. It doesn't matter how "real" your story is, or how "made up": what matters is its necessity.

God, I hate my family, these people I never chose to love, but love all the same.

We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.

I have no place left to live but in my own heart.

The way to write a book is to actually write a book. A pen is useful, typing is also good. Keep putting words on the page.

I’m really lucky with the people around me. They know me, so they don’t confuse the issues really. They know what a book is and they know who I am and they know the difference between the two.

There are men who would do anything, asleep, and I'm not sure what stops them when they wake. I do not know how they draw the line.

Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand.

I live locally, I eat regionally but I think internationally.

Without hair, A queen is still a queen’.

Food availability is not really the issue. The quality of the food is what we recognize is the problem.

The richest and fullest lives attempt to achieve an inner balance between three realms: work, love and play.

We can never lose anything that is good, never lose love or the memories of great happiness because they are true.

Man is born for deeds of kindness.

Time that never ends, that never passes, that remains in the present, where all of life's secrets lie.

If after two weeks you still can't write your middle-eight, the best course of action is to see a psychiatrist

Later works are better because it takes a lot of time in architecture to mature. And, it takes a lot of discipline to experience everything that is changing around you.

The goal of theology is the worship of God. The posture of theology is on one's knees. The mode of theology is repentance.