“..i'd like to take my professional life, my career, my writing, my family and my friends seriously, but please, please protect me from ever taking myself too seriously.... Seumas”
“I don’t take my life seriously, but I do take what I do – in my life – seriously -”
“I do take my work seriously and the way to do that is not to take yourself too seriously”
“Some of the stuff that I write really concerns me. If I'm not institutionalised by 30 I'll seriously question the judgement of my friends and family.”
“The best thing you've ever done for meIs to help me take my life less seriously, it's only life after all.”
“Please take your time. I want you to kill me slowly so I can write my lastpoem to my wife's heart. They laughed, and took from meonly the words dedicated to my wife's heart.”