I make a film like I cook for friends. I hope they like it, but if they don't, I'm prepared to enjoy it all by myself.
The purpose of writing is to make your mother and father drop dead with shame.
Electronic books are a bad thing because they cannot be accumulated on shelves to remind you of your past, to impress your neighbors and colleagues, and to help prevent divorces thanks to the sheer bother of arguing over who owns what.
When I die, I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin. I wonder would they know it was me?
On Being Old. It's not nice but take comfort that you won't stay that way for ever.
Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.
I'm starved for love. Not ordinary love but real love. The love that's like music or something.
There is very little evidence that we give a hoot about profit.
Looking at someone in a deployed setting, it's not in their best interest to get pregnant overseas, but if it happens, it happens.
As I was sitting in my chair, I knew the bottom wasn't there, Nor legs nor back, but I just sat, Ignoring little things like that.
A person deprived of beauty and pleasure puts me in mind of the Haitian notion of a zombie - a person disconnected from his or her soul, a person who works for others' profit but never his own, a person who mindlessly does the bidding of the boss and exists in an emotional and mental limbo.