All my life I had feared imprisonment, the nun's cell, the hospital bed, the places where one faced the self without distraction, without the crutches of other people.
I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.
I have always espoused chastity except when one can no longer resist the temptation.
Irish Catholicism is very much founded on the stone of fear and of punishment.
We hide the truer part of ourselves when we love.
In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things.