“The whiskey kicked like a mugger.”

“I get through some print.”

“The Local Paper here asked that me books be banned........THE HIGHEST PRAISE for an Irish writer.”

“Your life is in some bizarre state when priests are throwing abuse at you on the street.”

“There'll be times when the only refuge is books. Then you'll read as if you meant it, as if your life depended on it.”

“As the physicist John Wheeler said, “If you don’t kick things around with people, you are out of it. Nobody, I always say, can be anybody without somebody being around.”

“She wanted to say 'I love you like a thunderstorm, like a lion, like a helpless rage'...”