Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed.

My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.

A thing well done is worth doing.

There is only one immutable law in life - in a gentleman's toilet, incoming traffic has the right of way.

Sometimes silence resolves a conversation confused by Mad Misconstruction.

Gossip is more popular than literature.

The problem with Ireland is that it's a country full of genius, but with absolutely no talent.

I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it.

An Irishman will always soften bad news, so that a major coronary is no more than 'a bad turn' and a near hurricane that leaves thousands homeless is 'good drying weather'.

In life there exist two classes: first class and no class.

My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play.

TV takes away our freedom to have whatever thoughts we want. So do photographs, movies, and the Internet. They provide us with more intellectual stimuli, but they construct a lower, harder ceiling.

Every man must nurture is spiritual soul daily.

First one of you to call me Yoko, ” Todd warned as he stepped up, “is a dead man.

Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.

A bond is necessary to complete our being, only we must be careful that the bond does not become bondage.

When Satan knocks, I just send Christ to the door.

Everyone has a story if you just listen and shut up.

More people live off cancer than die from it.

A nation, like a tree, does not thrive well till it is engraffed with a foreign stock.

Education, fundamentally, is the increase of the percentage of the conscious in relation to the unconscious. It must be a developing idea.