It's what I'd like from my life - to live and learn, be wise and to go on without bitterness.

What have you done today, to make you feel proud?

Not to be such a perfectionist, it makes life hard. I'd like to be more relaxed about everything.

To question is to grow.

I sincerely pity the poor man you marry. I doubt he’ll have a moment’s peace.

Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool.

Too many codeine pills, Too many nights of cold chillsToo many weak-handed dealsToo many lives, the addict steals

O thou of little faith why didst thou doubt?

[When asked how someone 6'3" had dared take up golf:] I was too tall to make the chess team in my high school, so I tried golf.

Death without the possibility of ever changing the world is the same as a life that never was.

My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to me the centre of paralysis.

There is no such thing as intellectual property.

The issue is not whether or not you have that power, the issue is whether or not you use it.

We live in a world where you're not being eaten by a lion when you fail, you just have to get another job.