Asking me why I did or didn't do anything is generally pointless. How do I know? And asking me what I'll do in the future is even less rewarding.

Asking me why I did or didn't do anything is generally pointless. How do I know? And asking me what I'll do in the future is even less rewarding.

Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.

My mother's father was from Sligo, and he used to say it was the hardest thing in the world to find a man alive in Dublin who wasn't in the GPO during the Easter Rising. Twenty brave men marched into that post office, he said, and thirty thousand marched out.

It's the easiest thing in the world to know God's will. You just wait and see what happens, and that's it.

As a friend of mine, herself a writer, says, 'People who spend the most meaningful hours of their lives in the exclusive company of imaginary people are apt to be a little strange'

Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you've found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were looking for.