Friedrich Nietzsche

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in a sentence as possible.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.