I am of the opinion, and even more so the older I get, that it is more difficult to have hope than it is to despair. And I mean this in the sense that in order to have hope you must acknowledge the despair and then you have to get beyond it. Taken from a radio interview given on BBC Radio 4's Open Book
Colum McCannHe looks like the sort of man who can't afford to leave, and doesn't want to stay, and so he is doing both at once.
Colum McCann