I know already that I will return to this day whenever I want to. I can bid it alive. Preserve it. There is a still point where the present, the now, winds around itself, and nothing is tangled. The river is not where it begins or ends, but right in the middle point, anchored by what has happened and what is to arrive.
Colum McCannIโm not interested in blind optimism, but Iโm very interested in optimism that is hard-won, that takes on darkness and then says, โThis is not enough.โ But it takes time, more time than we can sometimes imagine, to get there. And sometimes we donโt.
Colum McCannIncreasingly I think of myself as some strange and solitary conductor, introduced to a group of very dynamic musicians who happen to be my characters, and I have no idea how they are going to play together, and I have certainly no idea how I am going to put manners on them.
Colum McCann