The critical opinions of a writer should always be taken with a large grain of salt. For the most part, they are manifestations of his debate with himself as to what he should do next and what he should avoid.

One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.

A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return.

And make us as Newton was, who in his garden watching The apple falling towards England, became aware Between himself and her of an eternal tie.

In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one.

Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry.