"My art is not for the masses. It is for the few, the very few."

"The Irish are a fair people: they never speak well of one another."

"I have been writing for twenty years, and I have only just begun to learn how to write."

"I am a man who has lived in exile for many years, but I have never forgotten my homeland."

"I have not been able to write a line for a long time. I am very tired, and very sad."