I can't feel Irish to save my soul, but it's a fact.

When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.

Most of us prefer to be as quiet as possible about giving, because every time it's publicized that we do something, if it's something of the nature of giving, we'll be doubly besieged, and you really get sick of being always criticized no matter what you do.

Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.

That's what happens with writing. Ingredients bubble and cook. Material becomes substance.

Beginning writers must appreciate the prerequisites if they hope to become writers. You pay your dues - which takes years.

If you need to know history, the real story of those before you, then you should go to the library and read newspaper clippings of someone like Muhammad Ali every day, then it might giver you some understanding of the man.