Beliefs: Those things we hold to be true despite evidence to the contrary.

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.

Everything is in the way the material is composed.

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.

Learn to lose your destiny to find where it leads you

Those who say there are no more original ideas need to get out of the way of those of us who are creating them.

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

I suppose you'll not let me rest until I admit that I like your company?""You're getting to know me well...""Very well, I'll admit. You're slightly more than tolerable.

The race may be rough and tough, hard and hash, rude and crude, but only the pure and tough comes out clean and victorious

There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.

In any event, colonization and the grant of lands were provincial matters.

I don't connect much with the present. I have more of an affinity for what came in the past.

The future never just happened. It was created.

It's the little touches that make a future solid enough to destroy.