I'm going to sound like an old man but at my age, it's lovely doing something that you've never done before.
It was a sign of growing up, when the dark made no more difference to you than the day.
The Irish are the niggers of Europe, lads.
It's hard for me to measure them, or to assess my books because I'm so close to them.
Dreaming was only nice while it lasted.
If you are a writer you're at home, which means you're out of touch. You have to make excuses to get out there and look at how the world is changing.