Quotes About Derek Mahon

#1. The group of writers I had grown up with in the '60s - Derek Mahon, Michael Longley, James Simmons, John Hewitt, Paul Muldoon - formed a very necessary and self-sustaining group.

Seamus Heaney

#2. Emptiness is that which frees us from religiosity and leads us to true spirituality.

Brother Lawrence

#3. Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.

Natalie Portman

#4. Ten years. Ten years. Rachel missed her father every day. Not consciously, but his absence was a part of her, like a vine that wraps around a structure, sustains it even as it weakens it.

Laura Lippman

#5. It's practically my subject, my theme: solitude and community; the weirdness and terrors of solitude: the stifling and consolations of community. Also, the consolations of solitude.

Derek Mahon

#6. At the heart of the ridiculous, the sublime

Derek Mahon

#7. Progression and regression go hand in hand with mental health. It is a tough illness. You often take one step forward and ten steps back.

Theresa Larsen

#8. You with your light meter and relaxed itinerary,
Let not our naive labours have been in vain!

Derek Mahon

#9. The little things that you saw with a child's eye and that will never go away. That's what consciousness is all about.

Derek Mahon

#10. 'T is sweeter for thee despairing Than aught in the world beside,-Jessy!

Robert Burns

#11. Pageview journalism treats people by what they appear to want - from data that is unrepresentative to say the least - and gives them this and only this until they have forgotten that there could be anything else. It takes the audience at their worst and makes them worse.

Ryan Holiday

#12. That's the great thing about 'The West Wing:' you really felt like you were in the thick of it.

Joss Whedon

#13. To tell you the truth, I never listen to opera at home.

Lesley Garrett

#14. Why was it I was seeing beauty in death rather than life?

Sui Ishida

#15. Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?

Kate Millett

#16. I'm a guitar player, really - I mean, first and foremost - I grew up with all that great 1960s music, in terms of growing up, becoming a musician, so it's like first-love stuff; I'm always going to go back to it.

Todd Rundgren

#17. Who would have thought something that happened that long ago could have such power?

Alice Sebold

#18. My biggest fight has been between those who wanted to do something incremental and those who wanted to do something comprehensive. We won that fight, and once we kick through this door, there'll be more legislation to follow.

Nancy Pelosi

#19. To bear witness to the death, without being broken by the weight of it.

M.L. Stedman

#20. At 11, I went to live with my maternal nan and granddad temporarily, after my parents separated, and Nan would let me have a go on her piano. My grandparents were like something out of the Noel Coward play, 'This Happy Breed,' and it was magical to hear them sing music-hall songs.

Jools Holland