Our destiny can be examined, but it cannot be justified or totally explained. We are simply here.

Food is a profound subject and one, incidentally, about which no writer lies.

Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.

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!

I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.

Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.

Freedom is not choosing; that is merely the move that we make when all is already lost. Freedom is knowing and understanding and respecting things quite other than ourselves.