He 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.

Stories are the best democracy we have. We are allowed to become the other we never dreamed we could be.

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

The Irish are great for their tunes, but all their lovesongs are sad and their warsongs happy.

So much of her time spent like this: dreaming up things to say and never quite saying them.

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.

I don't know of a greater privilege than being allowed to tell a story, or to listen to a story. They're the only thing we have that can trump life itself.