我的座右铭是：不分贵贱，唯才适用。

"To write is to walk on the edge of the unspeakable."

I'm not afraid of loneliness because music accompanies me.

We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.

The novel is a mirror, reflecting not just the world, but the soul of the writer.