Oh, love, what an unreasoning creature it grew to be.

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 every corner of our existence.

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

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

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

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.

Writing is like carrying a fetus.

never forget this moment, the hum of the bee, the saffron threads of the flower, the drawn blinds, nature's assiduousness and human cruelty.

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

Promiscuity is the death of love.

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

Simplicity reveals the pure beauty of life.

He who is concerned only with the purity of his own life ruins the great human relations.

Sometimes the way to share your love is to let someone go.

Or help one fainting RobinUnto his Nest againI shall not live in vain.

Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surprise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more securely.

She gives the night its dreams.

The great actresses and actors receive awards for great roles in great films.

What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.

Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.