“Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life.”

“It is certainly true that writers take a stance at some variance from organized religion. This has not always been true. But since...”

“The nineteenth century, especially the second half of it, was a time of restatement in Ireland. After the famine, after the failed...”

“In all my life and in the future, I will always be a faithful and loyal servant to all of my compatriots.”

“It's like real life: We don't get a preview of what's coming up, thank God, and we don't build our own character from what we're g...”

“So at some point you realize that your life is not just going to start one day in the future, that you're living it.”

“When thinking about the future, it is fashionable to be pessimistic. Yet the evidence unequivocally belies such pessimism. Over th...”

“Life is going to be complex, and the only way we're able navigate our way through it at all is by living as best we can and absorb...”

“I can look at the future with anticipation. And it's comforting to know that someday, as Christians, we'll be able to look back an...”