“Si je n’y suis [en la grâce de Dieu], Dieu m’y mette; et, si j’y suis, Dieu m’y tienne! Je serais le plus dolente de monde si je savais ne pas être en la grâce de Dieu”
— Jeanne d’Arc
On the street I was stopped by a man with a clipboard who wanted to interview me. I had a feeling he was an Irish Scientologist. “If you could be anywhere you wanted to be, where would you be?””Right here,” I said. “That’s why I’m here, because I want to be.”He scampered away without taking any notes.
David W. McFadden (1940–2018)
Canadian poet, fiction writer, and travel writer
An Innocent in Ireland (1995)