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My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.

Gossip is more popular than literature.

As somebody once said, we're not punished for our sins, we're punished by them.

My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play.

My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father.

I've always believed in survival.

My wife and I have enjoyed over forty years of wedded blitz.

I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it.

I'm a much nicer person since my wife died. I found out what pain is, so on that level I'm much nicer.

I don't think anyone is the perfect one to play me.

Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed.

My grandmother made dying her life's work.

The problem with Ireland is that it's a country full of genius, but with absolutely no talent.

There is only one immutable law in life - in a gentleman's toilet, incoming traffic has the right of way.

A thing well done is worth doing.

I've always enjoyed a woman's company more than men's. They're usually better looking.

Sometimes silence resolves a conversation confused by Mad Misconstruction.

I'm a writer, and what I do is write. I wasn't able to do anything else.

I think with every writer there are two people there.