It's only when you abandon your ambitions that they become possible.

Personal finances are like people’s personal health, crucial and tragic to the sufferer but tedious to the listener.

And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind.

Thomas was my true name but everyone knew me as Mick, except my mother, who knew me as definitely Michael.

And I definitely wanted to be a writer, but I felt a duty now, having used up those educational resources, I felt a duty to the church and my parents to become a priest.

Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.

Australia integrated the - brought on the ships and unleashed in the society the dogs of sectarianism, which had existed in other places - in Glasgow, in Liverpool and of course in Ireland, north and south.