When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.

I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt

I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.

My hand does the work and I don't have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. It's like a dam in the brain that bursts.

In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: 'Is there someone new?'

Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.