I knew it would soon be the end, so I played the part, you know, the part of — how shall I say, I don’t know.

Silence, yes, but what silence! For it is all very fine to keep silence, but one has also to consider the kind of silence one keeps.

Habit is a great deadener.

Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.

Clear to me at last that the dark I have always struggled to keep under is in reality my most

Hold the old holding hand. Hold and be held. Plod on and never recede. Slowly with never a pause plod on and never recede.

Be again, be again. (Pause.) All that old misery. (Pause.) Once wasn't enough for you.