The Imagination Demands That Life Be Told

Yes, Though I Have Nothing But Gratitude For My Upbringing In The Church.

Ireland Is A Peculiar Society In The Sense That It Was A Nineteenth Century Society Up To About 1970 And Then It Almost Bypassed The Twentieth Century.

The Rosary Was Said Every Evening. I Always Liked That Sentence About The Medieval Churches, That They Were The Bibles Of The Poor. The Church Was My First Book And I Would Think It Is Still My Most Important Book.

When I Was In My 20s It Did Occur To Me That There Was Something Perverted About An Attitude That Thought That Killing Somebody Was A Minor Offence Compared To Kissing Somebody.

I Think Fiction Is A Very Serious Thing, That While It Is Fiction, It Is Also A Revelation Of Truth, Or Facts.