I am the son of a small and far-away nation and the other laureates have all come from different countries from all over the world and we all were equally received here with signs of sympathy. – Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood. – Wallace Stevens, 1916
Irish fiction is full of secrets, guilty pasts, divided identities. It is no wonder that there is such a rich tradition of Gothic writing in a nation so haunted by history. – Terry Eagleton
