A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking.

I’m really lucky with the people around me. They know me, so they don’t confuse the issues really. They know what a book is and they know who I am and they know the difference between the two.

I can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true.

I do not think we remember our family in any real sense. We live in them instead

In more static societies, like Ireland, you can tell where a person is from by their surname, or where their grandparents are from.

There are about as many ways to be dead as there are to be alive. People linger in different ways, both publicly and privately.

People do not change, they are merely revealed.