I never paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.

This wasn't how I imagined things going. But imagination is so often no match for the absurdity, the randomness, the tragedy of reality.

I wish to be buried in Ireland, the country of my adoption a country which I loved, which I have dutifully served, and for which I believe I have sacrificed my life.

The price of cowardice will only be evil. We shall reap courage and victory only when we dare to make sacrifices.

It is not possible to define. Nothing has ever been finally found out. Because there is nothing final to find out.

A single gnomic line can come to resonate with centuries of subsequent wisdom.

I kind of like the challenge of jumping into totally different spaces and styles and figuring out how to fit in.

Although some people felt Adolf Hitler was bad, he was a great man and a real conqueror whose name would never be forgotten.

My mum is incredibly intelligent.

I really like the P!nk song with the guy from fun., 'Just Give Me a Reason.'

We are the only ones who can tell our stories because we are the only ones who have lived them.