The passion of vanity has its own depths in the spirit, and is powerfully militant.

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

Expectations are the most perilous form of dream, and when dreams do realise themselves it is in the waking world: the difference is subtly but often painfully felt.

Habit is not mere subjugation, it is a tender tie; when one remembers habit it seems to have been happiness.

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

All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.

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