“I've always been fascinated by physics and cosmology. It gets more and more scary the older you get.”

“With crime fiction, you have to write a half-dozen before they catch on.”

“I live in Dublin, God knows why. There are greatly more congenial places I could have settled in - Italy, France, Manhattan - but I like the climate here, and Irish light seems to be essenti...”

“We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop, and so on into the unimaginable generation...”

“But by now anything was better than hope.”

“There is a deep foundation of my being which knows not of time and change and is still and ever with Hartley, in that good place where we once were.”

“I have felt more passion with less comfort elsewhere: the mysterious deep half-blind preferences of human beings for each other, the quick probing tentacles that seek in the dark, why one in...”

“Everything is full of gods, cousin James once said, quoting somebody.”

“We are all potentially demons to each other, but some close relationships are saved from this fate.”