Family Butchers |
I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is trying to recapture that heightened awareness. |
I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition between women. |
I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt |
In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: ''Is there someone new?'' |
Inebriations of love, shadows of love, fantasies of love, but never yet the one true love |
My hand does the work and I don't have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. It's like a dam in the brain that bursts. |
Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it. |
The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed. |
When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious. |
Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul. |
Writing is like carrying a fetus. |
Writing is like carrying a fetus. |