I always want to be in love, always. It's like being a tuning fork.

You have to be lonely to be a writer

My hand does the work and I dont have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. Its like a dam in the brain that bursts.

When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.

Ideally I'd like to spend two evenings a week talking to Proust and another conversing with the Holy Ghost.

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

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