The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

My work is not about destruction, but about the possibility of creation. 我的作品不是关于毁灭，而是关于创造的可能性。

我相信我们都有能力改变。我们都可以成长和进化。

We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.

The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.