“To be saved is here, local and mortal”
“A brick could be used to save humanity from mortality. Or at least save us from mortar. ”
“[T]here is no goodness that is not bodily and realistic and local.”
“The Local Paper here asked that me books be banned........THE HIGHEST PRAISE for an Irish writer.”
“Here, too, the honorable finds its dueand there are tears for passing things; here, too,things mortal touch the mind.”
“Can’t be any harder than sitting here and having a staring contest with mortality.”