Jack Dooley

“The wolfhound century leaps at my shoulders,
But I am no wolf by blood.”
― Osip Mandelstam

“To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.”
― Daniel Patrick Moynihan

“And men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty waves of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, yet pass over the mystery of themselves without a thought.”
― St. Augustine of Hippo, Confessions

“Shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder.”
― Leon Kass