"I am constantly preoccupied with the idea of writing a book about Dublin."

"My father was a man of the world, and he taught me to be one too."

"The past is something that you can't get rid of, it's always there."

"I am a man who has always been alone, and I shall always be alone."

"I am quite content to pay the price. Let the Irish be the first to understand that I am a free man."