To claim that music is more important than oxygen would be trite and sentimental. It would also be true.

I'm not recognised that much. I'm just a bald man in glasses and there's a rash of them in Dublin. It'd be different if I had a mohican.

It's hard for me to measure them, or to assess my books because I'm so close to them.

Some of the people who look the most normal are probably the maddest people trying to look normal.

Good ideas are often murdered by better ones.

Do not place a photograph of your favourite author on your desk, especially if the author is one of the famous ones who committed suicide.

I like naming characters.