Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.

The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, the public debt should be reduced and the arrogance of public officials should be controlled.

There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read.

Life is like a cobweb, not an organization chart.

I can always be distracted by love, but eventually I get horny for my creativity.

I think the 19th century is an extraordinary period with a welling up of creativity and all kinds of experimentation and exploration going on at least until 1940.

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

I wasn't embraced as an Irish artist back in the Moloko days. Modern electronica isn't what you think of when you think of Irish music.