"I've always been conscious of the fact that there aren't enough Irish voices on British television compared to the amount of Irish people who live there."

“The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.”

Source : "Thornburgh vs. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists". "Abortion and Protection of the Human Fetus: Legal Problems in a Cross-Cultural Perspective". Book by George F. Cole and Stanisław Frankowski, 1987.

“One of the great ambitions is to discover the diversity of the world, to discover who inhabits the world.”

“To ensure that the self doesn't shrink, to see that it holds on to its volume, memories have to be watered like potted flowers, and the watering calls for regular contact with the witnesses of the past, that is to say, with friends.”

“Life is better lived than conceptualized. — This writing can be less demanding should I allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I’ve come to understand that life is best to be lived — not to be conceptualized. If you have to think, you still do not understand.”

“I'm not happy, frankly. Because I think in a civil society we don't need firearms.”

“Everything that liberals want they call a civil right. This avoids them having to argue about it and puts the halo around the issue.”

“I recently took up ice sculpting. Last night I made an ice cube. This morning I made 12, I was prolific.”

“It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures; one must, without doubt, without hesitations, with assurance, admire what is beautiful.”