 Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day. |
| Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't. |
| Ireland is a great country to die or be married in. |
| The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round. |
| If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm. |
| Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk. |
| Language is a mixture of statement and evocation. |
| All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved. |
| Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak. |
| We are minor in everything but our passions. |
| Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone. |
| Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique. |
| That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things. |
| Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat. |
| When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out. |
| Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have. |
| Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies. |
| Education is not so important as people think. |
| The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written. |
| The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part of one's self-respect. |
