"My goal is always the same: to keep the other player from ever scoring a point. That doesn't always happen, but that's what I try for."

“I envision a future where there'll be 300 million reporters, where anyone from anywhere can report for any reason. It's freedom of participation absolutely realized.”

Source : Speech to the National Press Club on Media and the Internet, delivered 2 June 1998

“There has to be a moment at the beginning when you wonder whether you’re in love with the person or in love with the feeling of love itself.”

“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?”

Source : Ginger Man (1955) ch. 31

“My ma says a rock lasts forever, but people don’t, and that’s what makes them more precious.”

Source : Shannon Hale (2012). “Princess Academy: Palace of Stone”, p.234, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

“I still haven't come to grips with our success.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“When you know something’s wrong, but you don’t know exactly what it is, the air around you changes.”

“I now have to find a reason to write, every single day.”

“I went across the fields to avoid the straight highways, along the firing lines where people were shooting at a small wooded hill, which is now covered with wooden crosses and lines of graves instead of spring flowers.”