I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.

It seems to me you do not care what banality a man expresses so long as he expresses it in Irish.

The studious silence of the library ... Thought is the thought of thought. Tranquil brightness.

An improper art aims at exciting in the way of comedy the feeling of desire but the feeling which is proper to comic art is the feeling of joy.

While you have a thing it can be taken from you…..but when you give it, you have given it. no robber can take it from you. It is yours then forever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.

When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flown at it to hold it back from flight.

Have read little and understood less.