I will have the faith... not the faith they want me to have, but another kind of faith which is of my own invention.

We decided to put in a park and picnic area. It will accommodate about 500 people for groups. We wanted to find incredibly mature landscaping, installed in such a way that it will create a park-like setting that was consistent with all the other beautiful landscaping that exists around Dodger Stadium.

Just luxuriate in a certain memory, and the details will come. It's like a magnet attracting steel filings.

If ever you are to be visited by the Holy Ghost, you should make certain you're sitting beside a fireman.

For some reason, I wrote about the bed we slept in when I was a kid. It was a half-acre of misery, that bed, sagging in the middle, red hair sticking out of the mattress, the spring gone and the fleas leaping all over the place.

The part of Limerick we lived in is Georgian, you know, those Georgian houses. You see them in pictures of Dublin.