There cannot be any true leisure until all the world possesses it equally.

He knew the world and its absurdities as only an intelligent Irishman can; which is to say that where his knowledge or memory failed him, his imagination was always ready to fill the gap.

All novelists should live in two different worlds: a real one and an unreal one.

I will tell you what war is. War is a psychosis caused by an inability to see relationships. Our relationship with our fellowmen. Our relationship with our economic and historical situation. And above all our relationship to nothingness, to death.

The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time.

I think it is interesting that we have come back to star- and space ships. Jet will do for a transport shorthand; yet when man really reaches, across the vast seas of space, he still reaches in ships.

Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this world is. That is the smile: that what might not be, is.