There is blood in Mr. Ervine's 'Carson'; he knows nothing about Sir Edward Carson, of course, but his teeth are firmly fixed in the calf of someone's leg, all the time, and he draws blood without a doubt.

There is blood in Mr. Ervine's 'Carson'; he knows nothing about Sir Edward Carson, of course, but his teeth are firmly fixed in the calf of someone's leg, all the time, and he draws blood without a doubt.

Perhaps it’s true, my happiest moments are the anticipation of other moments still to come.

It's possible to keep drawing this moment out, any moment, hammering it thinner and thinner like beaten gold, like iced chablis, whipping it, whipping it to cheap perfume, each word blown to aneurysm.

Ireland regards sex, when she regards it at all, with an entirely primitive and practical eye.

There has been no lack of courage in Ireland; there never is, but even our courage has a fatal quality.

Motherhood: the days are long, the years are short.