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.

Writers, however mature and wise and eminent, are children at heart.

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

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.

When you fall in love, it is spring no matter when. Leaves falling make no difference, they are from another season.

Irish? In truth I would not want to be anything else. It is a state of mind as well as an actual country. It is being at odds withother nationalities, having quite different philosophy about pleasure, about punishment, about life, and about death. At least it does not leave one pusillanimous.

literature is the last banquet between minds.