I feel these days like a very large flamingo. No matter what way I turn, there is always a very large bill..

Politics' the polite word for antediluvian prejudices, the rags put on by enmity and tribal resentment..

Beliefs: Those things we hold to be true despite evidence to the contrary..

The most important thing I would learn in school was that almost everything I would learn in school would be utterly useless. When I was fifteen I kn….

There is nothing worse than the ambitions of a talentless person..

Dublin was turning into Disneyland with super-pubs, a Purgatory open till five in the morning..

(The short story) is a form that has all the power of the novel - some would say more - but none of the self-importance..

Everything is in the way the material is composed..

Love and freedom are such hideous words. So many cruelties have been done in their name..

It is not a matter of ends justifying means: but of the creation of new means and new ends..

If you do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got. If what you are doing is not working, do something else..