Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love a free man is never safe.

But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.

Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live

Lonely was much better than alone.

She missed -- without knowing what she missed-- paints and crayons

The best hiding place was love. Thus the conversion from pristine sadism to fabricated hatred, to fraudulent love.

I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.

How about peaches, dear?” murmurs Madame Manec, and Marie-Laure can hear a can opening, juice slopping into a bowl. Seconds later, she’s eating wedges of wet sunlight.

When times are tough, constant conflict may be good politics but in the real world, cooperation works better. After all, nobody's right all the time, and a broken clock is right twice a day.

Sometimes one appears to have more freedom than one actually possesses. It is easy to see what one wishes to see.

In terms of a character, I would love to play a fairy. I think that would be really fun.

There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing.

If you cut me in half, I'm a footballer.

The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights.

Ricky Gervais is a genius.

I should have mixed something stronger than Coke floats.

I am one who believes that we are, in fact, engaged in a worldwide war against terrorism. We must have the serenity to accept the fact that war is not going to go away if we ignore it.