You can see desperation in people who are too eager to laugh because they're in such a hurry not to look at what's confronting them in their lives and that's kind of sad because there's a kind of pornographic aspect to it, of making some sort of pain go away, of hovering around a pain, making yourself numb, not feel anything.

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

I'm not a fighter, I'm a bleeder.

I don't have lungs anymore! Just two spare bags that flew in under a bridge one day.

Idioms are a big thing in Ireland. They want to fill the time, to show how good they are at talk - it's a talk-off

Love in all its forms is very difficult ... to express. It changes, obviously. If you’re young, and you’re romantically in love with somebody, and often if you’ve just met somebody, its crazy! It’s completely overwhelming. You can’t think of anything else. You just want to climb inside the other person and live under their pancreas. And then it mellows, somewhat... to the point where you can barely look at them... without feeling a mild distaste

I do not walk around imaging myself to be intimidating or smart.