At the age of 18 I don't think that I thought very differently than I did at the age of 25. I think we instinctively have the knowledge and adapt the knowledge we need.

When I die, I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin. I wonder would they know it was me?

On Being Old. It's not nice but take comfort that you won't stay that way for ever.

Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.

I'm starved for love. Not ordinary love but real love. The love that's like music or something.

Dear Mr Skully, I have caught my neck in a mangle and will be indisposed for eternity. Yours in death S.D.

Expect the worst and that's what you'll get only it will be much worse.

I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.

The purpose of writing is to make your mother and father drop dead with shame.

Revenge is what I want. Nothing but pure unadulterated revenge. But my mother brought me up to be a lady.

Rid the mind of knowledge when looking for pleasure. Or start thinking and find a lot of pain.

You are not supposed to be here in this world and not leave something for which you could be called great.

The Sufi must be able to alternate his thought between the relative and the Absolute, the approximate and the Real.

Everything is for the best in this best of all possible worlds.

The cities are the principal home and seat of the human group. They are the coral colony for Man, the collective being.

When i'm with you my blood flows smoothly through

When you open up to awareness, it frees up your whole life.

Out in the world not much happened. But here in the special night, a land bricked with paper and leather anything might happen, always did.

What is the mark of love for your neighbor? Not to seek what is for your own benefit, but what is for the benefit of the one loved, both in body and in soul.

I do believe in women. I really do.

To get to a place where you could love anything you chose--not to need permission for desire--well now _that_ was freedom.