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.

Good ideas are often murdered by better ones.

The Irish are the niggers of Europe, lads.

My parents were sixty years married.

I write short stories when a little idea occurs to me, that I know isn't a part of a novel that will stand by itself and should be concentrated.

When you grow up on an island, what matters is how you stand to the sea.