One ceases to be lonely only in recollection; perhaps that is why people read history.

The hardest - the part that's hard is to kill, but once you kill, that becomes easier, to kill the next person and the next one and the next one." -Varnado Simpson, Charlie Company of My Lai

It’s ok, ” he murmured. “I’ve got you.

There are innumerable ways to murder a person, but the most subtle and pernicious of these is to mutilate the soul of the innocent by denying or downgrading their uniqueness and their beauty.

People who never get carried away should be.

It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that is purloined.

I think politics come out of psychology.

No matter what our circumstance, we can find a reason to be thankful.

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.

Everything that ever happened to me fell in my lap.

Humor is a prelude to faith and laughter is the beginning of prayer.