The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

The truth is, we are all waiting to be told who we are.

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

人们对他们所爱的人最残忍。

作家最伟大的工具是同理心，能够感受他人，通过他们的眼睛看世界。

真相很少是纯粹的，也从不简单。

我不是一个商人；我就是生意，伙计。

我们爱尔兰人太诗意以至不能做诗人，我们的国家里充满才华横溢的失败者，可我们是自希腊人以来最伟大的说空话之人。

我写得越多，我就消失得越多。