Not watching TV gets me in a lot of trouble in my household because my wife and daughter have a lot of shows they like to watch.

Ireland starts for me with the end of The Dead, which my father read to me from his desk in his basement office in New Albany, Ind.

We live in such constant nearness to the abyss of past time that the moment is endlessly sucked into.

What’s old doesn’t need to be old-fashioned. It gets reborn.

Reporting provides reminders that things are always more complicated than you think.

It is a curious fact that the word essayist showed up in English before it existed in French.

At GQ, there was never a temptation to pander or preach to the choir because I had no concept of who the reader was or what that reader might want.

Freaky things happen all the time in the world. I suppose everything has to happen for the first time at some point.

The city of Cork - the urban center, where all the shops and bars and everything are - is actually an island, a river island.

A good writer wants from us — or has no right to ask more than — intelligence, good faith and time.

I'm just saying, take courage. That and pretty much that alone is never the incorrect thing to do.

One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.

Love doesn't try to be efficient; when it is most extravagant, it is least wasted.

[Hillary Clinton] is trigger happy and very unstable. Whether we like it or not, that's what's going on.

A new year was a chance to start over. Maybe even, just maybe, there would be a peace on earth for one entire day.

Enemies publish themselves. They declare war. The friend never declares his love.

There is no real wealth but the labour of man.

I'm a comedy geek so anything comedy related, whether that's standup shows, improv shows, I'm all over that. That's my favorite way to be entertained always.

They might object to some of my opinions, but they don't object to my behavior as a judge.

When I first registered to vote I registered as a Democrat.

With a mind not diseased, a holy life is a life of hope; and at the end of it, death is a great act of hope.