All publicity is good, except an obituary notice.

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.

Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed.

If you help them (the crew) create good memories, they'll forget all the bad stuff

From my writer's workshop, "Know when it's time to put everything you've got on the page. Then, rip open a vein and do it!

Those who cook up stories will get into hot water.

Some people do drugs, I buy shoes!

And grace that won who saw to wish her stay.

Money was never the motivation. It never should be in sports.

I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.

Offer someone the opportunity to rebuild a company or reinvent an industry as the primary incentive, and it will attract those drawn to the challenge first and the money second.

Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt.