I do enjoy Gothic fiction or books about zombies if they are well written and I like vampires.

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.

My parents were sixty years married.

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.

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

I like naming characters.