There were positive things about the church, that is, in the European cultural sense, the architecture, the liturgy, the music, the art, such as it was, the stations of the cross in the church, the tradition, and the atmosphere of awe and mystery in the mass. The atmosphere of miracle, one of mainly mystery, that's what fascinates me.

I am for who i was in the beginning but now is present and i exist in the future.

Before the famine, which was in the 1840s, that was an emotional turning point... There are various documents showing how the Elizabethan English, in particular, were shocked by Irish displays of affection, by the way women acted toward strangers, walking up and putting their arms around them and kissing them right full on the mouth.

Keep scribbling! Something will happen.

It’s lovely to know that the world can’t interfere with the inside of your head.

We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely.

I asked my dad what afflicted meant and he said 'Sickness son, and things that don't fit.'