Usually a good part of the people trying it end up not making it.

I was too heavy to be a jockey and too honest to be a producer, so I became a writer.

Writing, basically breaks down to relationships between people and that is what you write about.

I am very proud of this work because it is more about the meaning of the Easter Rising and its relationship to what this whole century has been about, people liberating themselves, freeing themselves.

Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

Of how much real happiness we cheat our souls by preferring a trifle to God! We have a general intention of living religion; but we intend to begin tomorrow or next year. The present moment we prefer giving to the world.

I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half.

This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.