I had a curious feeling that I was living on several planes simultaneously; the overlapping of these planes was confusing.

Because of my fear that the daytime world would become real, I had to establish reality in another place.

Reality had always been something of an unknown quantity to me.

Everything was quiet, as if the silence was listening.

At last I feel identified with the mountains, clean, cold, hard, detached.

I had never before met anyone who owned a telephone and believed in dragons.

My ideas were confused. In a peculiar way, the unreality of the outer world appeared to be an extension of my own disturbed state of mind.

You mustn't be so afraid of life - it's all we've got. Don't let it hurt you so much.

To wait - only to wait - without even the final merciful deprivation of hope.Sometimes I think that some secret court must have tried and condemned me, unheard, to this heavy sentence.

Her albino hair illuminated my dreams, shining brighter than moonlight.

I know that I'm doomed and I'm not going to struggle against my fate. I am only writing this down so that when you do not see me any more you will know that my enemy has finally triumphed.

If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.

Juno: Honest to blog?

Thinking about the fathomless cruelty with which man has treated his fellow man, but also ice cream.

I have no social agenda with my work. I'm deadpan about it.

It is our moral failure that we still tolerate poverty

The city atmosphere certainly has improved her. Some way she doesn't seem like the same woman.

For me, fiction's great gift - to writer and reader, alike - is freedom.

Time does not always pass at the same speed. We are the ones who determine that speed.

My dear father; my dear friend; the best and wisest man I ever knew, who taught me many lessons and showed me many things as we went together along the country by-ways.

History of Ireland--lawlessness and turbulency, robbery and oppression, hatred and revenge, blind selfishness everywhere--no principle, no heroism. What can be done with it?