When I was a child, love to me was what the sea is to a fish: something you swim in while you are going about the important affairs of life.

The Irish, as a race, have the oral tradition in their blood. A direct question to them is an anathema, but in other cases, a mere syllable of a hero's name will elicit whole chapters of stories.

Don't you know that everybody's got a Fairyland of their own?

There’s great beauty on this world if you just have the eyes to see it.

All of us are subject to being passive to the social ills around us. It's a struggle not to become, by staying silent, an accomplice.

A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.

More and more I’ve become convinced that the great treasure to possess is the unknown.

Child and serpent, star and stone — all one.

If we are going to teach the world to stop hating the different, the other, then we’re going to have to start with children.

Once we have accepted the story we cannot escape the story's fate.

Tea is balm for the soul, don't you agree?

ZENITHNOON beats outon its solar anvilthe rays of light

Marsha Coleman-Adebayo clearly and engagingly tells us Americans a truth that we might not want to hear but should.

Every question is a hypothetical question for everyone but the person who asks it.

The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery.

Somemenare bornkings; and someare bornstatesmen. The two are seldom the same.

Baptize first the children; and if they can speak for themselves, let them do so. Otherwise, let their parents or other relatives speak for them.

Fur pillows are hard to actually sleep on.

Conor was no longer invisible. They all saw him now. But he was further away than ever.

Solvency feels better than anything you can spend money on.

Democracy is an insecure landscape.