Sport and death are the two great socializing factors in Ireland.

Don't you understand that all language is dead currency? How they keep on playing shop with it all the same.

The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part of one's self-respect.

Where would the Irish be without someone to be Irish at?

Meetings that do not come off keep a character of their own. They stay as they were projected.

Characters are not created by writers. They pre-exist and have to be found.

Proust has pointed out that the predisposition to love creates its own objects; is this not also true of fear?