"The only thing that has been of real use to me is the study of the occult."

"No man who deserts his own literature for another's can hope for the highest rank. The cradles of the greatest writers are rocked among the scenes they are to celebrate. Wherever an Irish writer has s…"

"Sex and the dead are the two things that I am most interested in."

"Was it needless death after all? / For England may keep faith / For all that is done and said. / We know their dream: enough / To know they dreamed and are dead."

"I have been a good deal in the company of ghosts."