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" When I was a kid, I was a pretty good runner, and there was nothing like winning a race. "

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" A lot of people say writers start losing their powers after 60 or 65. But I look at the best-seller list and see a book by that 14-year-old gymnast, Dominique Moceanu, and I think, 'Now, what's she going to tell the world? And these 25-year-old rock stars, what are they going to tell the world?' "

" I didn't have to struggle at all to get an agent and a publisher. Everything fell into my lap. "

" I had moments with my father that were exquisite - the stories he told me about Cuchulain, the mythological Irish warrior, are still magical to me. "

" Certain citizens claimed I had disgraced the fair name of the city of Limerick, that I had attacked the church, that I had despoiled my mother's name, and that if I returned to Limerick, I would surely be found hanging from a lamppost. "

" My mother had had six children in five and a half years, and three of them died in that time. "

" We were supposed to stay over in Boston, but when Scribners heard I'd won the Pulitzer, they told me to get on a plane - that Katie Couric wanted my body. And when Katie Couric wants your body, you get moving right away. "

" The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice. "

" I learned the significance of my own insignificant life. "

" I can do no more than tell the truth. "

" I'm a late bloomer. "

" I can't go too much into my domestic life because there are ex-wives ready to do me in. "

" Everyone has a story to tell. All you have to do is write it. But it's not that easy. "

" I never really fit in anywhere. "

" When I look back on my childhood, I wonder how I survived at all. "

" I'm always a great student of writers' work habits. Balzac sat at his desk dressed in a monk's robe, and he always had to have a rotten apple on his desk. The smell of the apple inspired him somehow. "

" I certainly couldn't have written 'Angela's Ashes' when my mother was alive, because she would have been ashamed. "

" There were a number of houses. When we first arrived in Limerick, it was a one-room affair with most of it taken up with a bed. "

" Every life is a mystery. There is nobody whose life is normal and boring. "

" One day a week should be set aside for field trips. "

" It gives me a very keen satisfaction that, after listening to my blather all those years, former students are now seeing that I wrote a book, that I did have it in me. "

" When I first went up to see my editor, I was with my agent, and my editor said, 'Well, what have you been doing all these years?' And my agent said, 'He's been in recovery. From his childhood.' "

" I think there are two cities in the world - New York and Rome. "

" I just have to proceed as usual. No matter what happens, nothing helps with the writing of the next book. "

" That's what kept us going - a sense of absurdity, rather than humor. "

" I was a houseman, the lowest. I was just above - in the hierarchy of jobs, I was just above the Puerto Rican dishwashers - just above, so I felt superior to them. "

" St. Patrick, bringing the religion to Ireland, this is what we should celebrate. "

" There was a kind of madness in the country. Eamon De Valera, the prime minister, had this vision of an Ireland where we'd all be in some kind of native costume - which doesn't exist - and we'd be dancing at the crossroads, babbling away in Gaelic, going to Mass, everyone virginal and pure. "

" I was ashamed of it, of the poverty I came from. "

" My father and mother should have stayed in New York, where they met and married and where I was born. "

" I've had experiences on both sides of the ocean and various classrooms and bedrooms around New York. "