Irish Catholicism is very much founded on the stone of fear and of punishment.

It is increasingly clear that the fate of the universe will come to depend more and more on individuals as the bungling of bureaucracy permeates every corner of our existence.

History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders.

When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.

The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.

Ordinary life bypassed me, but I also bypassed it. It couldn't have been any other way.Conventional life and conventional people are not for me.

Writing is like carrying a fetus.

never forget this moment, the hum of the bee, the saffron threads of the flower, the drawn blinds, nature's assiduousness and human cruelty.

... a country encapsulates our childhood and those lanes, byres, fields, flowers, insects, suns, moons and stars are forever reoccurring.

Promiscuity is the death of love.

I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.

conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain

Behavior speaks... I need not listen to someone's apology

The first stab of love is like a sunset, a blaze of color - oranges, pearly pinks, vibrant purples.

Hollywood isn't your cesspool, America. It's your mirror.

Add to the world's confusion, we teach our kids rules that we don't adhere to ourselves.

That prudery which survives youth and beauty resembles a scarecrow left in the fields after harvest.

The way to truth lies through ahimsa (nonviolence).

The mind is continuously running around. It never sits, it can't sit. Sitting seems to be death to it, and in a way it is.

I am so happy, I cannot be contained in the world; But like a spirit, I am hidden from the eyes of the world.

Don't limit your challenges; challenge your limits. Each day we must strive for constant and never ending improvement.