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

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.

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.

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

Life is offering you infinite paths! To get stuck in one path is nothing but shallowness! Go deep, discover other lanes!

I had nothing to fear from my father.Except his disappointment.Which was no small thing.

The acknowledgement of a single possibility can change everything.

One day with life and heart is more than time enough to find a world.

Ultimately we need to recognize that while humans continue to build urban landscapes, we share these spaces with others species.

But, on the other hand, if Schubert were alive today, he would find even richer fields to plow.

I really kind of pride myself on figuring stuff out pretty quickly but I couldn't, couldn't. I just had no idea.

High school studfents are the largest oppressed minority in America.

The writing about what you know thing was a huge one. Not worrying so much about what people think. Just writing for myself and the band is enough.

The mental flexibility of the wise man permits him to keep an open mind and enables him to readjust himself whenever it becomes necessary for a change.