Seamus Heaney

Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.

I'm not personally obsessed with death. At a certain age, the light that you live in is inhabited by the shades - it 'tis.

Anyone born and bred in Northern Ireland can't be too optimistic.

I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, 'You're finished. The shoe's finished.'

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.