But it’s like Cherise says, the hardest ones to love are always the ones who need it most. (Aimee)
I always want to be in love, always. It's like being a tuning fork.
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.
We all leave one another. We die, we change - it's mostly change - we outgrow our best friends; but even if I do leave you, I will have passed on to you something of myself; you will be a different person because of knowing me; it's inescapable.
History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders.
Irish? In truth I would not want to be anything else. It is a state of mind as well as an actual country. It is being at odds withother nationalities, having quite different philosophy about pleasure, about punishment, about life, and about death. At least it does not leave one pusillanimous.
When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.
Things which are different in order simply to be different are seldom better, but that which is made to be better is almost always different.
Democracies have to be careful that they do not become so process-driven.
I was part of a group that had a cinema club so every week we would project two or three movies on 16 or 35mm.
Where love rules, laws are not needed.