Seán Proinsias Ó Faoláin (27 February 1900 – 20 April 1991) was one of the most influential figures in 20th-century Irish culture. A short-story writer of international repute, he was also a leading commentator and critic. (wikipedia)
There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.
Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have to time for the pitiful.