“We still tell each other that we are lucky to be alive, when our being alive has almost nothing to do with luck, but with geography, pigmentation, and international exchange rates.”
— Joseph O’Connor
“Everything is in the way the material is composed.”
— Joseph O’Connor
“How the prisoner and the immigrant are treated by the government, how the poor are treated and those without influence: this is secretly how the government would like to treat us all.”
— Joseph O’Connor
“…but as his father used to say when he had a few drinks taken, you couldn’t expect bloody miracles when you were talking about God.”
— Joseph O’Connor
“That each man is the sum of his choices is nothing less than the truth. And each, perhaps, is also something else.”
— Joseph O’Connor
“Love and freedom are such hideous words. So many cruelties have been done in their name.”
— Joseph O’Connor