What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.
There are things that you cannot talk to your mother and father about, there are things that you cannot talk to your children about.
There are certain things I do not talk about.
There were many things they simply didn't talk about: between them, silence was not so much a form of evasion as a way for solitary people to exist in a family.
The thing is, I have been diabetic, and I've been saying I'm diabetic; it's just, people don't write about it to showcase it or to bring awareness to it. So those are just the things that weren't spoken about. And, just like everything else, I had to do it myself to be heard.
I was always fascinated by forbidden things people didn't want to talk about, like death.
What I haven't talked about I don't intend to talk about.
I look around and pay attention to what around me is not being talked about, and then I talk about it with as much humour and honesty as I can. All my books have been that way.
I write essays first because I have a passionate relationship to the subject and second because the subject is one that people are not talking about.
Me and my dad never talked racing. We just didn't. I wouldn't go up and ask him about that unless I wanted to upset him.
My gosh, if you’re going away, we got a million things to talk about! All the things we would’ve talked about next month, the month after! Praying mantises, zeppelins, acrobats, sword swallowers!
People think we are such great talkers, but there is so much silence in Ireland about certain issues.
