About 25 years ago, I took a bicycle across the United States. I soon found out that the greatest item of clothing was the trusty bandanna. There were dozens of uses for a bandanna - as a pot holder, a chain cleaner, a sun shield, a headband, a snot rag, a declaration of Kerouacian intent.

About 25 years ago, I took a bicycle across the United States. I soon found out that the greatest item of clothing was the trusty bandanna. There were dozens of uses for a bandanna - as a pot holder, a chain cleaner, a sun shield, a headband, a snot rag, a declaration of Kerouacian intent.

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.

We have to listen to other people's stories. That's the thing. And that's the only way that we eventually get to know ourselves.

Pain's nothing. Pain's what you give, not what you get.

How inevitable it is; we step into an ordinary moment and never come out again.

Sometimes, in life, nothing happens. But, sometimes, nothing happens beautifully.