Art is for [the Irish] inseparable from artifice: of that, the theatre is the home. Possibly, it was England made me a novelist.
But surely love wouldn't get so much talked about if there were not something in it?
But to be quite oneself one must first waste a little time.
When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.
Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.
Curiosity in Rome is a form of courtesy.