"Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain."

“You are not the same person working alone as you are in a group; in a romantic setting versus an educational one; when you are with close friends or in an anonymous crowd; or when you are traveling abroad as when at home base.”

“Love is an irrational force, making humans do all sorts of strange and wonderful things like write poetry and take up the ukulele.”

“Desmond O'Grady is one of the senior figures in Irish Literary life, exemplary in the way he has committed himself over the decades to the vocation of poetry and has lived selflessly for the art”

“Some people won't even own a dog for fear it will die - you can't bubble-wrap your heart.”

“Sharing with Jupiter is never a dishonor.”

“perhaps the way with any obsession is to ignore it simply. Not to fight it, since it draws strength from any contact with us, whether hostile or friendly ...”

Source : Nan Fairbrother (1954). “An English Year”

“There was a time I was very much blaming the way I felt on L.A, that it was a vacuum of creativity, of humor or anything organic, and I was really angry at the place. But then today I feel completely different - I love L.A.!”

“It is the end result that counts.”