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.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

I have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love.

'Interstellar' may never equal the blast of scientific speculation and cinematic revelation that was Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey,' but its un-Earthly vistas are spectral and spectacular.