On television, journalists now routinely appear on talk-shows-with-an-attitude where they are encouraged to say what they think about something they may not have finished thinking about.

Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers.

I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference.

Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.

Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential.

The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.

I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.

What he labels sexual, she labels harassment.

Today, much of journalism and politics are in a kind of collusion to oversimplify and personalize issues. No room for ambivalence. Plenty of room for the personal attack.

Ultimately, time is all you have and the idea isn't to save it, but to savour it.

Our 'mistakes' become our crucial parts, sometimes our best parts, of the lives we have made.

It is not really hard to understand when women say that they like 'tall, dark and handsome' men..They simply mean a tall man with dark fantasies and handsome salary..

Deepest place in my mind is my thinking and thoughts....Do not try to understand me...Otherwise you will drown in me.

His lips brushed against mine. Delicately at first, almost testing to see if this was real.

We are better deceived by having some truth told us than none.

I'd sell my soul for a good cause.

A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion.

The first play I wrote was called 'Twenty-five.' It was played by our company in Dublin and London, and was adapted and translated into Irish and played in America.

Comedy is an ability to observe and see what's funny in a situation and be able to forget yourself enough to do it.

Regret is a tricky word. Here's a big secret: nobody knows what wasn't.

I think hip-hop needs a little bit of diversity.