The Only Way To Write

There Is Nothing As Tentative As An Old Woman's Touch; As Loving Or As Horrible.

There Are About As Many Ways To Be Dead As There Are To Be Alive. People Linger In Different Ways, Both Publicly And Privately.

If You Can Just Actually Let The Character Be For A Bit, Then You Get The Right Sense.

We Have Lost The Art Of Public Tenderness, These Small Gestures Of Wiping And Washing; We Have Forgotten How Abjectly The Body Welcomes A Formal Touch.

I Find Being Irish Quite A Wearing Thing. It Takes So Much Work Because It Is A Social Construction. People Think You Are Going To Be This, This, And This.