Everybody in American seems in a rush to catch a train.
Very often adverse criticism goes to craft, and that sounds an alarm to which attention should be paid.
History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it.
Don't sell your soul to buy peanuts for the monkeys.
Beware of feelings, Father. They are the biggest liars in us. They make truth what we want it to be.
It's a great wonder to me, the Irish attachment to our history. What is it but a series of lamentations?
We reveal more of ourselves in the lies we tell than we do when we try to tell the truth.
Quantum physics tells us that nothing that is observed is unaffected by the observer. That statement, from science, holds an enormous and powerful insight. It means that everyone sees a different truth because everyone is creating what they see.
The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us.
There's something with the physical size of America. . . American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country.
They who drink beer will think beer.