文学的美在于它让我们在一生中活出千种人生。
The beauty of literature is that it allows us to live a thousand lives in one.
The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.
"We are all prisoners of our own minds, but some of us have built stronger cages than others."
创造的行为是一种抵抗的行为。
我们爱尔兰人太诗意以至不能做诗人，我们的国家里充满才华横溢的失败者，可我们是自希腊人以来最伟大的说空话之人。