We all leave one another. We die, we change - it's mostly change - we outgrow our best friends; but even if I do leave you, I will have passed on to you something of myself; you will be a different person because of knowing me; it's inescapable.

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

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

Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.

...people liking you or not liking you is an accident and is to do with them and not you. That goes for love too, only more so.

There was I, devouring books and yet allowing a man who had never read a book to walk me home for a bit of harmless fumbling on the front steps.

I know the mistake I am making. I see the exits in life.