A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment... a place where you're least likely to be bitten by a wild goat.

The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.

It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.

I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.

They took away our land, our language, and our religion; but they could never harness our tongues.

The terrorist is the one with the small bomb.

I only take a drink on two occasions - when I'm thirsty and when I'm not.

I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.

The only thing I envy in young people is their livers.

In a free country there is much clamor with little suffering in a despotic state there is little complaint with much grievance.

Love built on beauty soon as beauty dies.

People in the business will stay with you through drugs and alcohol and divorces and insanity and everything else, but you have a failure, pal, and they don't want to know nothing about you!

When people ask me about my story, I just go through the positive stuff: the tent-pole moments, the big landmark checkpoints.

It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Expansion, that is the idea the novelist must cling to, not completion, not rounding off, but opening out.

You'll never find out what you can do, until you do all you can to find out

People eyeing you as a potential leader tend to ask three questions: Are you committed? Do you care about me? Can I trust you?

Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.

I see so many guys, really athletic guys, wearing pleats and I just shake my head. Like, Tiger Woods used to wear pleated pants! I'm like, 'C'mon, Tiger!'