Education is not so important as people think.

For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.

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.

Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it.

Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.

Solitary and farouche people don't have relationships; they are quite unrelatable. If you and I were capable of being altogether house-trained and made jolly, we should be nicer people, but not writers.