I feel a kind of intellectual regret, not an emotional regret, at having left my parents and that world behind. But it's not a great weight on my soul. In a way I wish it were. To leave one's background without guilt is an indication of shallowness of character, I suspect.


John Banville, The Art of Fiction No. 200 (2009)

John Banville Quotes

I feel a kind of intellectual regret, not an emotional regret, at having left my parents and that world behind. But it's not a great weight on my...

I feel a kind of intellectual regret, not an emotional regret, at having left my parents and that world behind. But it's not a great weight on my...

I feel a kind of intellectual regret, not an emotional regret, at having left my parents and that world behind. But it's not a great weight on my...

I feel a kind of intellectual regret, not an emotional regret, at having left my parents and that world behind. But it's not a great weight on my...