There are some places you love with your heart, and there are some places that you love with your mind- the places that you love with both are called 'libraries'

I believe the world of the spirit is in general greatly neglected and not at all served by the practice of faith as we know it, because religion isn't individual enough.

Find your soul and you'll live. Lose your soul and you'll die.

Do you know what the difference is between Friendship and Love? Friendship is the photograph, Love is the oil painting.

We Irish prefer embroideries to plain cloth. To us Irish, memory is a canvas--stretched, primed, and ready for painting on. We love the "story" part of the word "history," and we love it trimmed out with color and drama, ribbons and bows. Listen to our tunes, observe a Celtic scroll: we always decorate our essence.

As an arts journalist in London, working mainly for the BBC, I interviewed hundreds if not thousands of authors. From them I gleaned a great deal of passing instruction in writing and I observed one fascinating detail: no two writers approach their work - physically - in the same way.

Stick a lighted candle up your backside to give yourself that inner glow.