“Everything is in the way the material is composed.”

“They had no previous connection whatever with Connemara; but they saw connections where others who should have seen them simply looked the other way.”

“The English possessed as many words for stealing as the Irish had for seaweed or guilt.”

“Happy as a threaded needle”

“There is nothing worse than the ambitions of a talentless person.”

“The world's full of idiots, divas and assholes, mainly in Ireland. In Ireland, one cannot achieve anything if he is not a little wacky. That's a holy truth. It just simply cannot be otherwise.”

“Politics' the polite word for antediluvian prejudices, the rags put on by enmity and tribal resentment.”