Silence sat in the taxi, as though a stranger had got in.

Ireland is a great country to die or be married in.

Nothing arrives on paper as it started, and so much arrives that never started at all. To write is always to rave a little-even if one did once know what one meant

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.

At the age of twelve I was finding the world too small: it appeared to me like a dull, trim back garden, in which only trivial games could be played.

Chance is better than choice; it is more lordly. Chance is God, choice is man.

very young people are true but not resounding instruments.