Don't you DARE use party as a verb in my shop

You exaggerate your own reactions.

Religion is the yeast of death cakes. It is the most awful agent on a vulnerable mind. It's the refuge of alienated and lonely people. It's what people had before television. It yokes people together into an imaginary world. It is just people talking to their imaginary friends, at length. I wouldn't mind, but some of the people are world leaders.

The East is very mysterious to Westerners. Even post-Cold War, it's still an unknown entity.

Women are like canoes, full of soup. At first everyone is suspicious but then everyone wants one.

I'm really not big on nationalism, to be honest with you. I really don't think it gets people anywhere except near a pile of dead bodies. I'm Irish, yeah, but I don't need to get up on a soapbox about it.

I don't go around thinking of myself as a great anything.