Joseph O'Connor Quotes
I feel these days like a very large flamingo. No matter what way I turn, there is always a very large bill.
If you do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got. If what you are doing is not working, do something else.
Politics' the polite word for antediluvian prejudices, the rags put on by enmity and tribal resentment.
Love and freedom are such hideous words. So many cruelties have been done in their name.
The Christ of Bethlehem is the Christ of Galilee, is the Christ of the Crucifixion, is the Christ of the Resurrection, is the Christ of the Eucharist
Dublin was turning into Disneyland with super-pubs, a Purgatory open till five in the morning.
(The short story) is a form that has all the power of the novel - some would say more - but none of the self-importance.
Are we to have a church in which everyone's judgment is equal to everyone else's? That's not a church, it's chaos. Common sense dictates that you keep the fox out of the chicken coop.
It is not a matter of ends justifying means: but of the creation of new means and new ends.
That each man is the sum of his choices is nothing less than the truth. And each, perhaps, is also something else.
...but as his father used to say when he had a few drinks taken, you couldn't expect bloody miracles when you were talking about God.
How the prisoner and the immigrant are treated by the government, how the poor are treated and those without influence: this is secretly how the government would like to treat us all.
We still tell each other that we are lucky to be alive, when our being alive has almost nothing to do with luck, but with geography, pigmentation, and international exchange rates.