My father was very outwardly religious. — John McGahern

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry. — William Shakespeare
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars. — Victor Hugo
I've never written anything that hasn't been in my mind for a long time - seven or eight years. — John McGahern
I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the poor. — John McGahern
But that private world, once it's dramatised, doesn't live again until it finds a reader. — John McGahern