I do like Italian graves; they look so much more lived in.

I pity people who do not care for Society. They are poorer for the oblation they do not make.

... any fictionis bound to be transposed autobiography.

Some ideas, like dandelions in lawns, strike tenaciously: you may pull off the top but the root remains, drives down suckers and may even sprout again.

I can't see or feel the conflict between love and religion. To me, they're the same thing.

Art is for [the Irish] inseparable from artifice: of that, the theatre is the home. Possibly, it was England made me a novelist.

Style is the thing that's always a bit phony, and at the same time you cannot write without style.