A people always ends by resembling its shadow.
These days, unplugged places are getting hard to find.
An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve.
The Lord survives the rainbow of His will.
If you commit a crime, you're guilty.
The press has met their Waterloo, and it's Obama.
How can you write if you can't cry?
People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.
Everyone should eat hashish, but only once.
Lawyers have a dangerous job in Iran.
I'm a bit of a coward, and lazy, oddly enough.
I'm fat because I'm greedy, and if my mind is fat it's because I'm curious.
Dig your well before you're thirsty.
One is punished by the very things by which he sins.
Evolution is a process of constant branching and expansion.
Don’t be different just to be different. Be different to be better.
You know me... If you are Iraqi, you know me.
Poems that come swiftly are usually the ones that you keep.
I think of Dermot Healy as the heir to Patrick Kavanagh.
I have never seen any such quote anyplace, anywhere.
I am half-Byronic, half-moronic; part-shaman, part-showman.