Beware of feelings, Father. They are the biggest liars in us. They make truth what we want it to be.

Don't sell your soul to buy peanuts for the monkeys.

There’s no snobbery like that of the poor toward one another.

The law is above the law, you know.

History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it.

I don't approve the informality in the world today, Mr. James. It's made strangers of us all.

We reveal more of ourselves in the lies we tell than we do when we try to tell the truth.

No one who likes a song lacks congeniality.

Flattery makes fools of the best of us.

Very often adverse criticism goes to craft, and that sounds an alarm to which attention should be paid.

It's a great wonder to me, the Irish attachment to our history. What is it but a series of lamentations?

A reactionary revolution is nothing but a high-speed evolution backwards!

I think family dynamics are definitely very interesting. And in my case my sister did get married. She gave my parents a grandchild.

I can be accused of trying to be commercial sometimes.

If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive.

Good luck with your asparagus.

Like you, I have been disgraced about what I've seen on TV that took place in prison.

Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.

I want my family to resemble the family I came from.

I don't believe in anything blindly supernatural.

When I was young, I flirted with the idea of a career in journalism on one hand and politics on the other.