I didn't have a very religious family.
Unfortunately for my family, they have a writer in the family.
In Limerick, a family that was dysfunctional was one who could afford to drink but didn't.
Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.
Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.
Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.
Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.
I had a pretty sexual imagination for a kid.
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all.
Even one death is horrible.
But death's acquisitive instincts will win.
Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.
The goal of all life is death.
Keep true to the dreams of your youth.
But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
Writers write. Dreamers talk about it.
