My childhood here... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn.

I just have to proceed as usual. No matter what happens, nothing helps with the writing of the next book.

There’s no use saying anything in the schoolyard because there’s always someone with an answer and there’s nothing you can do but punch them in the nose and if you were to punch everyone who has an answer you’d be punching morning noon and night.

Stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it.

They can afford to smile because they all have teeth so dazzling if they dropped them in the snow they'd be lost forever.

Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow.

He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can’t make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it. If you won the Irish Sweepstakes and bought a house that needed furniture would you fill it with bits and pieces of rubbish? Your mind is your house and if you fill it with rubbish from the cinemas it will rot in your head. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.