People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

Dogs are very different from cats in that they can be images of human virtue. They are like us.

Only lies and evil come from letting people off.

There is nothing like early promiscuous sex for dispelling life's bright mysterious expectations.

Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.

That's how vile i am! I live Ireland, I breathe Ireland, and Christ how I loathe it, I wish I were a bloody Scot, that's how bloody awful it is being Irish!

People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars.