Enough of acting the infant who has been told so often how he was found under a cabbage that in the end he remembers the exact spot in the garden and the kind of life he led there before joining the family circle.

Dear incomprehension, it's thanks to you I'll be myself, in the end.

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness.

God is a witness that cannot be sworn.

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

I want very much to be back in the caul, on my back in the dark forever.

If I was dead, I wouldn't know I was dead. That's the only thing I have against death. I want to enjoy my death.