Ireland is a great country to die or be married in.
Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.
The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round.
There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.
Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it.
Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.
I think the main thing, don't you, is to keep the show on the road.
Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.
The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.
I became, and remain, my characters' close and intent watcher: their director, never. Their creator I cannot feel that I was, or am.
We are minor in everything but our passions.