When I'm writing I just think there's only the page and me and nobody else.

I'm going to sound like an old man but at my age, it's lovely doing something that you've never done before.

When I was a kid, if you didn't speak Irish, you really wanted to. And you played Gaelic games and you didn't pay any attention to what was happening in the outside world, because really, the - Ireland was the center of the universe. And I don't think that's the case anymore, although, admittedly, it is the center of the universe.

My novels come from within me; they are things I feel I want to do.

Dreaming was only nice while it lasted.

The Irish are the niggers of Europe, lads.

Sometimes adults seem as though they have cut a chord from being a child.