'The Dublin Magazine' has been edited with good taste, and it is very agreeable reading, but to speak quite candidly, I do not believe in the future of any literary journal any more than I believe in the future of the Trinity.

I believe in the future, and to be a good investor, you have to believe in the future.

I do not believe in a universal religion any more than I believe in a universal language. My feeling is that people have to make their own religion as they have to make their arts and their parishes, and that they must find their own salvation; the salvation mongers are of not much avail.

Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.

I believe in blues, and I believe that it's been misrepresented.

I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.