When I was in my 20s it did occur to me that there was something perverted about an attitude that thought that killing somebody was a minor offence compared to kissing somebody.
John McGahernThe way I see it is that all the ol' guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I couldn't be anything else no matter what I tried to be. I couldn't be Chinese or Japanese.
John McGahernI think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.
John McGahernI feel I grew up in a different century than I live in. I think most of them are changes for the good.
John McGahern