Colum McCann World Quotations

I think the Northern Ireland accent is one of the most beautiful in the world.

No shame in saying that I felt a loneliness drifting through me. Funny how it was, everyone perched in their own little world with the deep need to talk, each person with their own tale, beginning in some strange middle point, then trying so hard to tell it all, to have it all make sense, logical and final.

Corrigan told me once that Christ was quite easy to understand. He went where He was supposed to go. He stayed where He was needed. He took little or nothing along, a pair of sandals, a bit of a shirt, a few odds and ends to stave off the loneliness. He never rejected the world. If He had rejected it, He would have been rejecting mystery. And if He rejected mystery, He would have been rejecting faith.

You cannot read any image of the World Trade Center without thinking of 9/11.

The world does not turn without moments of grace. Who cares how small.

We have to admire the world for not ending on us.

The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.