The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.

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.

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.

In a way Winter is the real Spring - the time when the inner things happen, the resurgence of nature.

Love: the sickest of Irony’s sick jokes. The place where logic and order go to die.

Writing is a delicious agony.

To reciprocate God’s love is to have the nature of love

I personally believe Patch scared the pants off normal, and it took off running for the far side of the world.

some men never die and some men never live but we're all alive tonight.

All religions lead to the same God, and all deserve the same respect.

Awareness is the key. Do we see the stories that we're telling ourselves and question their validity?

Few politicians are good at taking the high ground and throwing themselves off it.

Millions of people are falling out of the middle class into the ranks of the poor.

I am convinced that if we as a society work diligently in every other area of life and neglect the family, it would be analogous to straightening deck chairs on the Titanic.