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

it is not good to repudiate the dead because then they do not leave you alone, they are like dogs that bark intermittently at night.

She said the reason that love is so painful is that it always amounts to two people wanting more than two people can give.

I have always espoused chastity except when one can no longer resist the temptation.

Money talks, but tell me why all it says is just Goodbye.

I knew I had done something awful. I had killed love, before I even knew the enormity of what love meant.

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