"My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to me the centre of paralysis."

"My mind rejects the whole present system of sex and marriage."

"The longest way round is the shortest way home."

"I am a man who has always been misunderstood. But I don't care."

"The past is something that you can't get rid of, it's always there."