I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is trying to recapture that heightened awareness.

...people liking you or not liking you is an accident and is to do with them and not you. That goes for love too, only more so.

Movie people are possessed by demons, but a very low form of demons.

... we have so many voices in us, how do we know which ones to obey?

If the Holy Communion touched my teeth, I thought that was a mortal sin

Darkness is drawn to light, but light does not know it; light must absorb the darkness and therefore meet its own extinguishment.

IT WAS TESS who told me about the crowd going to the all-night dance. We'd been school friends. We'd picked mushrooms and pretended to have seen a big ship. She had got married since I went away; it was a made match, a man from the midlands, a Donal, who had worked in a garage but took to farming, out all day, draining fields and callows so that he could till them and sow corn.