I'll have you know that I am not a failed Third Division footballer. I am a failed Second Division footballer.
I have never been able to wear a hat. My hair is peculiar in that it grows so fast that any hat I put on instantly leaps from my head.
There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough.
Only a fool would make the bed every day.
Everything begins in Paris.
Ireland is a wonderful place to write in. Even although the atmosphere was so Faith-laden that I was often worried that I was not writing a book to the glory of God, I had to admit that words flowed from my pen like all-get-out. To be honest, there is nothing to do in Ireland but write.
It is a city of villages, closely connected, each village dedicated to a different way of life.
I don't want to be a great leader; I want to be a man who goes around with a little oil can and when he sees a breakdown, offers his help. To me, the man who does that is greater than any holy man in saffron-colored robes. The mechanic with the oil can: that is my ideal in life.
Every year Swedish society produces a new generation of threatened women who can testify to the lack of legal rights and the lukewarm interest shown by the police and other authorities.
You know, you still owe me pancakes. I think I could go for…apple cinnamon ones now. “ “Apple cinnamon? You sure are demanding. ” “It’s all right. I think you’re man enough for it. ” “Thetis, if I actually believed you had either apples or cinnamon in your kitchen, I’d make them for you right now. ” I didn’t answer. I was pretty sure I had some year-old Apple Jacks, but that was about it.
It is a lazy public which promotes a slothful and irresponsible theater.