Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left.

Parents have become very aware of the safety issues, maybe through the negative (publicity) this industry has received.

He that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well

There is nothing as dead and as damned as an important thing. The things that really matter are casual, insignificant little things.

A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.

In the country places of Ireland, writing is held in certain awe: a writer was a dangerous man from whom they instinctively recoiled.