Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.

The book shd. be a ball of light in one's hand.

small talk comes from small bones

Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.

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

A crowd pagan as ever imperial Rome was, eager, careless, with an animal vigour unlike that of any European crowd that I have ever looked at.

Poetry is about as much a 'criticism of life' as red-hot iron is a criticism of fire.