"Ninety years ago I was a freak. Today I'm an amateur."

“Diversity is crucial to art and crucial to cinema. That's a very strong European statement: All people should be able to have images of themselves.”

“I write to escape ... to escape poverty.”

“There are people that thinks that type should be expressive. They have a different point of view from mine.”

“The chief reason people do not know God is not because He hides from them but because they hide from Him.”

“The habits of craft, developed day in and day out over a working lifetime, create moments of astonishment, sublime and magical effects, precisely because the writer is not thinking overtly about making art.”

“Great little One! whose all-embracing birth Lifts Earth to Heaven, stoops Heaven to Earth.”

Source : Richard Crashaw (1858). “Complete works”, p.40

“Assists is what Earvin is all about. That's what my whole life has been, assisting others.”

“I've always wanted to be thrown into the ocean when I die - to be rowed out to sea and thrown overboard into the Atlantic.”

Source : "The Enchanting Solo Flight of Singer Aoife O’Donovan". Interview with Jacob Blickenstaff, www.motherjones.com. March 19, 2016.