You’re on Earth. There’s no cure for that

There’s a great line in Beckett,” she says, searching for a quote to capture this equipoise of light and dark. “I can’t remember who says it. ‘You’re on Earth. There’s no cure for that.’ There’s as much common sense in that as in all of Sophocles or Socrates or anyone else.”

Feels like it too.

Novelist Edna O’Brien on sex, books and a lifetime of defiance