I marveled at how they were all closed up, asleep with their secrets unseen until you reached up and took the book down from the shelf.

It is what it is. Either walk on, or accept.

We are so many different people in one lifetime.

Why hasn't anyone killed him yet?”“Dumb luck, ” Wit said. “In that I’m lucky you’re all so dumb.

The key to liberation resides within our very own hands and heart.

The flowers left thick at nightfall in the woodThis Eastertide call into mind the men, Now far from home, who, with their sweethearts, shouldHave gathered them and will do never again.

Do not be afraid of cooking as your ingredients will know, and misbehave. Enjoy your cooking and the food will behave; moreover it will pass your pleasure on to those who eat it.

Longevity has never bothered me at all, I have studied longevity for years.

Genius is childhood recaptured.

It's not easy making a living as a writer, and for many years I worked at a Waterstones in Dublin. It was a good environment for an aspiring writer, with lots of events and authors appearing.

At the heart of capitalism is creative destruction.

I never told you I was perfect; but there is no error in the revelations which I have taught.

Death is so preoccupied with life, that is has no time for anything else.