I'm a tuning fork, tense and twanging all the time.

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

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

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

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

I have some women friends but I prefer men. Dont trust women. There is a built-in competition between women.

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