When I heard the word ''stream'' uttered with such a revolting primness, what I think of is urine and not the contemporary novel. And besides, it isn't new, it is far from the dernier cri. Shakespeare used it continually, much too much in my opinion, and there's Tristam Shandy, not to mention the "Agamemnon."

Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!

Too excited to be genuinely happy

What is better than to sit at the end of the day and drink wine with friends, or substitutes for friends?

Children must be educated by love, not punishment.

If the Irish programme did not insist on the Irish language I suppose I could call myself a nationalist. As it is, I am content torecognize myself an exile: and, prophetically, a repudiated one.

My heart is quite calm now. I will go back.