Try to be accurate about stuff.

Try to be accurate about stuff.

I find being Irish quite a wearing thing. It takes so much work because it is a social construction. People think you are going to be this, this, and this.

Cats, I always think, only jump into your lap to check if you are cold enough, yet, to eat.

I’m really lucky with the people around me. They know me, so they don’t confuse the issues really. They know what a book is and they know who I am and they know the difference between the two.

Only bad writers think that their work is really good.

It is very hard to trace the effect of words on a life.