"The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart."

"I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness."

"No man who deserts his own literature for another's can hope for the highest rank. The cradles of the greatest writers are rocked among the scenes they are to celebrate. Wherever an Irish writer has s…"

"Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart."

"I believe that the dead can communicate with the living."