There is no good reason to suppose that whatever can be felt can be expressed in words, or indeed in any articulate form.

If there is a distinctive Irish experience, it is one of division, exacerbated by the fact that division in a country so small seems perverse. But the scale doesn't matter.

The truth of art consists in its power to break the monopoly that those in power exercise by defining what is real.

Knowing that language has done so much, we want to believe that it can do everything.

Through engagement with others, literature lets us imagine what it would be like to be differe.

A critical discourse that had respect for the mystery of art would look to the sense of life which finds expression in paradox, metaphor, tautology, and syntax.

Beauty is to recognize how full of Love you are. Sensuality is to let some of that Love shine through your body.

It's such a thrilling part about being in a relationship at a young age, and all your feelings are apocalyptic, all your emotions are so huge.

Just sitting around waiting for my life to begin, while it was all just slipping away.

A work settles nothing, just as the labor of a whole generation settles nothing. Sons, and the morrow, always start afresh.

I'm not overweight, I'm undertall

I am not one for half measures or half-hearted efforts.

Look at other people and ask yourself if you are really seeing them or just your thoughts about them.... Without knowing it, we are coloring everything, putting our spin on it all.

People have grown fond of me, like some old building.

I'll quit tanning when the satchel handle grows out of my back.

Think with your heart. See with your heart. Hear with your heart. Feel with your heart. Act with your hear. Speak with your heart. For love is the highest, most powerful, durable human capacity.