I Mean I Think That's A Fact

The Way I See It Is That All The Ol' Guff About Being Irish Is A Kind Of Nonsense. I Mean, I Couldn't Be Anything Else No Matter What I Tried To Be. I Couldn't Be Chinese Or Japanese.

I Think My Mother Was Very Spiritual.

I Used To Take Five Or Six Books Away And Bring Five Or Six Books Back. Nobody Gave Me Direction Or Advice And I Read Much In The Way That A Boy Might Watch Television.

I Feel I Grew Up In A Different Century Than I Live In. I Think Most Of Them Are Changes For The Good.

Amongst Women Concentrated On The Family, And The New Book Concentrates On A Small Community. The Dominant Units In Irish Society Are The Family And The Locality. The Idea Was That The Whole World Would Grow Out From That Small Space.