I was a middle child and was used to negotiating. But there was nothing I could do to reverse my mother's condition.
“I mean I grew up in Ireland, so one would have to be consciously blinkered not to have reflected on the issue of political violence because that was the story since I was 19 years old or 20.”
“If somebody pisses me off and I understand it ain't personal then I'll go to another place and I'll meditate.”