They had no previous connection whatever with Connemara

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Once writing becomes an act of listening instead of an act of speech, a great deal of the ego goes out of it.

There's in my mind a... turbulent moon-ridden girl or old woman, or both, dressed in opals and rags, feathers and torn taffeta, who knows strange songs but she is not kind.

A horsefly can't do a horse much real damage, but it can drive it wild anyhow.

Now you know that you can't go wrong... If you start each day with a song.

Biblical wisdom means living a disciplined and prudent life in the fear of the Lord

Our basic problem today is that we have two religions in conflict, humanism and Christianity, each with its own morality and the laws of that morality.

If you ask, you're a boor. Just accept it. Hillry Clinton loves children! She helped children! She village'd children. She raised children. She wrote a book about it.

I do think sometimes people get morally superior without understanding situations.

The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book.