I think the main thing, don't you, is to keep the show on the road.

The silence of a shut park does not sound like country silence: it is tense and confined.

All my life I have said, "Whatever happens there will always be tables and chairs"--and what a mistake.

...the power-loving temperament is more dangerous when it either prefers or is forced to operate in what is materially a void. Wehave everything to dread from the dispossessed.

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

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

without fiction, either life would be insufficient or the winds from the north would blow too cold.