The reality is that when Sinn Fein gets into these talks, there will be no more options for armed republicanism, for the IRA.

A quick thought shot through my mind. Could I really drown in a dream? I remembered the movie the Matrix. If you died in the matrix, you died in real life. I wasn’t about to take a chance...

We need to learn to dance more softly.

If you spend any time with a man, you'll realize that we're all still little boys.

When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind.

Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second.

Chesterton spoke of 'the modern and morbid habit of always sacrificing the normal to the abnormal.' It would be hard to sum up liberalism for succinctly.

If you survive long enough, you're revered - rather like an old building.

True redemption is...when guilt leads to good.

Smell and taste differentiate, whereas language, like sight and hearing, integrates.

When you feel good, everything around you is good, when everything around you is great, everything makes you happy. You are loving everything that is around you, because you are loving yourself.