Pete Hamill

I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful.

My parents were Belfast Catholics.

There are human beings who will be helped in understanding our times through the diaries of Edward Robb Ellis.

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

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.

A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what gets my adrenaline going.