I am reminded, now, of Leonardo's advice to painters: You should fix your eyes, he says, on certain walls stained with damp. You will see in these th…

- Ciaran Carson

How do you say a thing at all, at the end of the day? How do you say what's in your mind? And as soon as you say what you actually have in mind, it's…

- Ciaran Carson

There's a whole language out there, and one's role as a writer is to stumble around in it.

- Ciaran Carson

Where am I coming from? Where am I going? A fusillade of question marks.

- Ciaran Carson