Humbly to ask a favour of people who are on the point of knocking your brains out sometimes produces good results.

But it seems impossible to speak and yet say nothing, you think you have succeeded, but you always overlook something.

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

Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.

But I know what darkness is, it accumulates, thickens, then suddenly bursts and drowns everything.

The bicycle is a great good. But it can turn nasty, if ill employed.

I asked her to look at me and after a few moments - (pause) - after a few moments she did, but the eyes just slits, because of the glare I bent over her to get them in the shadow and they opened. (Pause. Low) Let me in.