The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.

History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders.

it is not good to repudiate the dead because then they do not leave you alone, they are like dogs that bark intermittently at night.

jealousy is the direct result of self-betrayal.

We all leave one another. We die, we change - it's mostly change - we outgrow our best friends; but even if I do leave you, I will have passed on to you something of myself; you will be a different person because of knowing me; it's inescapable.

Irish Catholicism is very much founded on the stone of fear and of punishment.

Irish? In truth I would not want to be anything else. It is a state of mind as well as an actual country. It is being at odds withother nationalities, having quite different philosophy about pleasure, about punishment, about life, and about death. At least it does not leave one pusillanimous.