Books everywhere. On the shelves and on the small space above the rows of books and all along the floor and under chairs, books that I have read, books that I have not read.

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

She was an auxiliary nurse but training to be a true nurse because that was her calling, to serve mankind. She was a Martha. There were Marys and Marthas, but Marys got all the limelight because of being Christ's handmaiden, but Marthas were far more sincere.

Writing is the product of a deeply disturbed psyche, and by no means therapeutic.

Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.

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

After that dark woman you search for someone who will fit into the irregular corners of your heart.