Promiscuity is the death of love..

I have some women friends but I prefer men. Dont trust women. There is a built-in competition between women..

The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed..

it is not good to repudiate the dead because then they do not leave you alone, they are like dogs that bark intermittently at night..

Irish? In truth I would not want to be anything else. It is a state of mind as well as an actual country. It is being at odds withother nationalities….

Irish Catholicism is very much founded on the stone of fear and of punishment..

I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt..

When something has been perfect, there is a tendency to try hard to repeat it..

... we have so many voices in us, how do we know which ones to obey?.

When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious..

History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders..

Ordinary life bypassed me, but I also bypassed it. It couldn't have been any other way.Conventional life and conventional people are not for me..

what makes us so afraid is the thing we half see, or half hear, as in a wood at dusk, when a tree stump becomes an animal and a sound becomes a siren….

Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul..

Money talks, but tell me why all it says is just Goodbye..

In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things..

It is increasingly clear that the fate of the universe will come to depend more and more on individuals as the bungling of bureaucracy permeates ever….

We all leave one another. We die, we change - it's mostly change - we outgrow our best friends; but even if I do leave you, I will have passed on to ….

To live with the work and the letters of James Joyce was an enormous privilege and a daunting education. Yes, I came to admire Joyce even more becaus….

Sometimes one word can recall a whole span of life..

... a country encapsulates our childhood and those lanes, byres, fields, flowers, insects, suns, moons and stars are forever reoccurring..