The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.

What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.

There is no topicmore soporific and generally boring than the topic of Ireland as Ireland, as a nation.

It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.

The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.

Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe.

I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.