Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow.

I think that's why you see so many Americans in Dublin look so sad: they are looking for the door through which they can begin to understand this place. I tell them, 'Go to the races.' I think it's the best place to start understanding the Irish.

We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely.

Actually, my mother and Alfie came for three weeks' Christmas vacation and stayed for 21 years. I guess my mother never went back because she was lonely.

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

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

I became a teacher all right. I wanted to become a teacher because I had a misconception about it. I didn't know that I'd be going into - when I first became a high school teacher in New York, that I'd be going into a battle zone, and no one prepared me for that.

The main thing I am interested in is my experience as a teacher.