I have always loved American poetry, which is very different from Irish poetry.
If it's sent by ship then it's a cargo, if it's sent by road then it's a shipment.
We spend our lives on the run: we get up by the clock, eat and sleep by the clock, get up again, go to work - and then we retire. And what do they give us? A bloody clock.
A good storyteller never lets the facts get in the way.
Goodnight, thank you, and may your god go with you.
My church accepts all denominations - fivers, tenners, twenties.
Am I the Irish comedian with half a finger? No, I'm the Irish comedian with nine and a half fingers.
Noticing and remembering everything would trap bright scenes to light and fill the blank and darkening past which was already piling up behind me. The growing size of that blank and ever-darkening past frightened me; it loomed beside me like a hole in the air and battened on scraps of my life I failed to claim. If one day I forgot to notice my life, and be damned grateful for it, the blank cave would suck me up entire.
Love, marriage, divorce, infidelity. . . life was the same here as anywhere else, wasn't? She realized now wrong she'd been; the pali wasn't a headstone and Kalaupapa wasn't a grave. It was a community like any other, bound by ties deeper than most, and people here went to their deaths as people did anywhere: with great reluctance, dragging the messy jumble of their lives behind them.
Focus on where you are instead of where you wish you were. The joy will follow.
I have loved 'Les Miz' for so long. It was the first Broadway show I'd ever done.