"In Ireland the inevitable never happens and the unexpected constantly occurs."

“It is only in the fundamentalist religions that women are relegated to second class. Radical Evangelicals, Muslims, and Jews all have the same view of women.”

Source : "Sally Quinn on Author Karen Armstrong". Online Chat, www.washingtonpost.com. March 29, 2006.

“The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.”

“If Aphrodite chills at home in Cyprus for most of the year, then Fez must be the goddess’s playground”

“If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.”

“Many Christians understand the Bible to be a collection of stories without an overarching narrative.”

“Hitler is a dancing dervish. He must be shot down.”

Source : "Killing Hitler" by Roger Moorhouse, (p. 237), 2006.

“You don't necessarily live for the moment; you live for hope-what you're going to get, what you're going to say, what you're going to think.”

“Like an enemy I knew as intimately as any friend, I came to know the nagging, constant emptiness of the incongruent life. I ignored myself and lived for people, purposes, and goals that weren't my own. I betrayed who I was and instead accepted a fictional substitute that was defined from the outside in.”