'The conventional mind is at best a petty piece of machinery. It is oyster-like in its functioning, or, perhaps better, clam-like. It has its little siphon of thought-processes forced up or down into the mighty ocean of fact and circumstance; but it uses so little, pumps so faintly, that the immediate contiguity of the vast mass is not disturbed. Nothing of the subtlety of life is perceived. Not least inkling of its storms or terrors is ever discovered except through accident.'

'Parents are frequently inclined, because of a time-flattered sense of security, to take their children for granted. Nothing ever has happened, so nothing ever…

I acknowledge the Furies. I believe in them. I have heard the disastrous beating of their wings.

'The Irish are a philosophic as well as a practical race. Their first and strongest impulse is to make the best of a bad situation - to put a better face on ev…

A thought is a screen, not a mirror; that is why you live in a thought envelope, untouched by Reality.

Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular.

The image of ourselves in the minds of others is the picture of a stranger we shall never see.