Everything was fabulous, even our breakdowns.

With all respects to heaven, I like it here.

Good days, they come around the oddest corners.

There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water - it has a memory of what it once filled, always trying to get back to the original stream.

There are fewer and fewer Jews in Ireland, but we still have one of the most famous Jewish characters in literary history, of course, in Leopold Bloom.

A lot of people think that writers are much cleverer than they actually are. No, they're not. But they're emotionally clever, and they go into a character, and they feel something that they weren't entirely aware of beforehand.

Part of the beauty of fiction is that we come alive in a body that we don't own.