When you fall in love, it is spring no matter when. Leaves falling make no difference, they are from another season.

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.

Take me! Well, not quite take me, love me now, take me eventually

I believe my using the talent He's given me is His will for my life. Why else would He have bothered giving it to me?

When you're outside, and everything is highland, it's like nature has its own sound, and that's one of my favorite sounds.

I think the two most difficult things to deal with in life are failure and success

Love is a spy who is plotting treason, In league with that warm, red rebel, the Heart.

All my dogs have been scamps and thieves and troublemakers and I've adored them all.

We do not learn from experience...we learn from reflecting on experience.

Awakening is the purpose that enfolds all purposes.

If the hoods don't get you, the monoxide will.

As Camille Paglia's success has demonstrated, what is most marketable is absolutism and attitude undiluted by thought.