"I often think that could we creep behind the actor's eyes, we would find an attic of forgotten toys and a copy of the Domesday Book"

"The eyes have one language everywhere"

"I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, "Where? What?" and turn away"

"I remember watching Jodie Foster in Contact, and that kind of opened my eyes"

"I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel"

"Amongst Women concentrated on the family, and the new book concentrates on a small community. The dominant units in Irish society are the family and the locality. The idea was that the whole world would grow out from that small space"

"I think for anybody reading the book they're going to get an idea in their heads of all those characters, and I think that once that gets fixed, it's quite hard to shake"

"I still do some inking here and there and I've actually got a book that I'm going to ink entirely"

"For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously"

"After some time, with my eyes closed, I began to enjoy this wonderful play of colors and forms, which it really was a pleasure to observe. Then I went to sleep and the next day I was fine. I felt quite fresh, like a newborn"

"When we go to play, you flip around and flash around and everything, and then they're not gonna see nothin' but what their eyes see. Forget about their ears"