Movie people are possessed by demons, but a very low form of demons.

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.

‎''Your heart is either beating or it's not, your heart never forgets. As long as your heart is beating follow it, it will always stay true to you.

Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family.

For ebbing resolution ne'er returns, But falls still further from its former shore.

We owe a lot to the Internet, for introducing people to technology and virtual space and what not.

To be aware of limitations is already to be beyond them.

I've been enjoying playing with fashion - gold grills and diamond grills have just become a part of that.

I'm a big fan of Samantha Bee's.

Discourse says, 'You are.' Rhetoric preserves the freedom to say, 'I am not.

So people only focus on getting the really deep sleep, but in reality, we spend almost 60% of the night in the stage two sleep.

I was darkly convinced that at age 52 I would kill myself because my mother committed suicide at that age. I was fantasizing that she was waiting for me on the other side of the grave.