Critics are like eunuchs; they can tell you what to do, but they can't do it themselves!

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.

Close your eyes. Grab a hand. And jump! Your destiny is waiting for you at the bottom!

I am who I am and I am who I was, and I am who I will always be!

In that kind of environment, where there's so much skepticism about information that's coming in, we're gonna have to spend a lot more time thinking about how do we protect our democratic process.

I never loved the world around me as it was.

In each thing there is an insinuation of death. Stillness, silence, serenity are all apprenticeships.

All gut strings. Thats just the first kind of guitar I played, it was a nylon string guitar. And to me, its the purest form of guitar making, and I just enjoy doing it.

You spend the first part of your life collecting things ... and the second half getting rid of them.

I have no choice but to defend the most vulnerable among us.

Christians need the gospel as much as non-Christians do.