Brian Friel Quotes

It is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.

To remember everything is a form of madness.

Even if I did speak Irish, I’d always be considered an outsider here, wouldn’t I? I may learn the password but the language of the tribe will always elude me, won’t it? The private core will always be ...hermetic, won’t it?