Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.
You have to be lonely to be a writer
In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things.
Irish Catholicism is very much founded on the stone of fear and of punishment.
For me to write I have to be, a, alone, and b, know that nobody is going to question me. I write the way a thief steals; it's a little covert.
I am not kind, I cut people off as with shears and I drop them like nettles.