We shape ourselves by our imaginative reach.

Yet she likes complications. She wishes she could turn and say: I like people who unbalance me.

I write about what I know; and I write about things that are new to me, and that I didn't know before.

Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.

There are fewer and fewer Jews in Ireland, but we still have one of the most famous Jewish characters in literary history, of course, in Leopold Bloom.

The person we know at first, she thinks, is not the one we know at last.

He's at ease, his body sculpted to the music, his shoulder searching the other shoulder, his right toe knowing the left knee, the height, the depth, the form, the control, the twist of his wrist, the bend of his elbow, the tilt of his neck, notes digging into arteries, and he is in the air now, forcing the legs up beyond muscular memory, one last press of the thighs, an elongation of form, a loosening of human contour, he goes higher and is skyheld.