The thing about writing is that if you have the impulse, you will find the time.

Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit.

When I was teaching, I gave a lot of my mind and anxiety to it. There was always something clenched and anxious in me until the classes were over.

Now it’s high watermark and floodtide in the heart and time to go. The sea-nymphs in the spray will be the chorus now. What’s left to say? Suspect too much sweet-talk but never close your mind. It was a fortunate wind that blew me here. I leave half-ready to believe that a crippled trust might walk and the half-true rhyme is love.

But even so, none of the news of these world-spasms entered me as terror.

Im a firm believer in learning by heart.

At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.