The Irish Are Great For

The Person We Know At First, She Thinks, Is Not The One We Know At Last.

I Sit There Thinking About How Much Courage It Takes To Live An Ordinary Life.

Increasingly I Think Of Myself As Some Strange And Solitary Conductor, Introduced To A Group Of Very Dynamic Musicians Who Happen To Be My Characters, And I Have No Idea How They Are Going To Play Together, And I Have Certainly No Idea How I Am Going To Put Manners On Them.

Life Must Pass Through Difficulty In Order To Achieve Any Modicum Of Beauty.

The Job Of The Writer Is To Look At Where He Is Now And Make Some Sort Of Emotional Sense Of It, Not Only For That Moment But For Years To Come.