No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.

Very gratefully, with grateful appreciation, with sincere appreciative gratitude, in appreciatively grateful sincerity of regret, he declined.

Quotation marks quotato marks! Bah!

When I die Dublin will be written on my heart.

Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.

I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.

To discover the mode of life or of art whereby my spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom.