"Do not choose to be wrong for the sake of being different."

“The vice and drunkenness among the lowering laboring classes is growing to frightful excess, and the multitudes of low Irish Catholics … restricted by poverty in their own country run riot in this … as long as we are overwhelmed with Irish immigrants, so long will the evil abound.”

“The only real purpose of a goal is to inspire you to fall more deeply in love with life.”

Source : Michael Neill (2006). “You Can Have What You Want”, p.24, Hay House, Inc

“There's something about being in the country that makes you stick out like a sore thumb ? you're an anomaly. But in London there's always someone wilder and woollier.”

“Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is sending and receiving.”

“I write because I want to end my loneliness. Books make people less alone. That, before and after everything else, is what books do. They show us that conversations are possible across distances.”

“It was almost like I was in the army.”

“I can't say, 'I eat whatever I want when I want,' but I have come up with some great treats for myself that are healthy and satisfying.”

“There is something very romantic about the orphan figure in American literature.”