But To Be Quite Oneself One Must

... In General, The Anglo-irish Do Not Make Good Dancers; They Are Too Spritely And Conscious; They Are Incapable Of One Kind Of Trance Or Of Being Seemingly Impersonal. And, For The Formal, Pure Dance They Lack The Formality: About Their Stylishness (for They Have Stylishness) There Is Something Impromptu, Slightly Disorderly.

What's The Matter With This Country Is The Matter With The Lot Of Us Individually - Our Sense Of Personality Is A Sense Of Outrage.

Language Is A Mixture Of Statement And Evocation.

Characters Should On The Whole, Be Under Rather Than Over Articulate. What They Intend To Say Should Be More Evident, More Striking (because Of Its Greater Inner Importance To The Plot) Than What They Arrive At Saying.

Someone Soon To Start On A Journey Is Always A Little Holy.