Daniel Keys Moran

You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data.

Actors are good liars; writers are good liars with good memories.

There's no way for me to know, but my best guess, as it must be for everyone, is that other people are pretty much like me.

My feeling for reality TV isn't ironic, guilty, or apologetic. Reality TV is one of the few remaining modes of popular entertainment in which characterization is permitted as plot.

I think of the bog as a feminine goddess-ridden ground, rather like the territory of Ireland itself.

After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.