Art only begins where Imitation ends.

To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die.

Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.

An entirely new factor has appeared in the social development of the country, and this factor is the Irish-American, and his influence. To mature its powers, to concentrate its action, to learn the secret of its own strength and of England's weakness, the Celtic intellect has had to cross the Atlantic. At home it had but learned the pathetic weakness of nationality; in a strange land it realised what indomitable forces nationality possesses. What captivity was to the Jews, exile has been to the Irish: America and American influence have educated them.

I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.

And if it feels good... Feel it!