I am teaching. Storytelling is teaching

There’s no use saying anything in the schoolyard because there’s always someone with an answer and there’s nothing you can do but punch them in the nose and if you were to punch everyone who has an answer you’d be punching morning noon and night.

Your mind is a treasure house that you should stock well and it's the one part of you the world can't interfere with.

The master says it’s a glorious thing to die for the Faith and Dad says it’s a glorious thing to die for Ireland and I wonder if there’s anyone in the world who would like us to live.

Keep scribbling! Something will happen.

And, of course, they've always condemned dancing. You know, you might touch a member of the opposite sex. And you might get excited and you might do something natural.

They can afford to smile because they all have teeth so dazzling if they dropped them in the snow they'd be lost forever.