I Am Teaching. Storytelling Is Teaching

People Everywhere Brag And Whimper About The Woes Of Their Early Years, But Nothing Can Compare With The Irish Version: The Poverty; The Shiftless Loquacious Father; The Pious Defeated Mother Moaning By The Fire; Pompous Priests; Bullying School Masters; The English And The Terrible Things They Did To Us For Eight Hundred Long Years. Above All -- We Were Wet.

You Might Be Poor, Your Shoes Might Be Broken, But Your Mind Is A Palace.

A Mother's Love Is A Blessing No Matter Where You Roam. Keep Her While You Have Her, You'll Miss Her When She's Gone -- Angela's Ashes.

He Says, You Have To Study And Learn So That You Can Make Up Your Own Mind About History And Everything Else But You Can't Make Up An Empty Mind. Stock Your Mind, Stock Your Mind. You Might Be Poor , Your Shoes Might Be Broken , But Your Mind Is A Palace.

First Of All There Is Always That Artistic Challenge Of Creating Something. Or The Particular Experience To Take Slum Life In That Period And Make Something Out Of It In The Form Of A Book. And Then I Felt Some Kind Of Responsibility To My Family.