"The past is consumed in the present and the present is living only because it brings forth the future."

"I am quite content to pay the price. Let the Irish be the first to understand that I am a free man."

"I am a man who believes in the power of words."

"My art is not for the masses. It is for the few, the very few."

"I want to live in a world where I am free to express myself, to write what I want, to say what I want."