I am a drinker with writing problems.

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.

The burden of intelligence: you can always imagine all those wonderful places where you can never belong.

The world tells us to be mean and bitter to survive. But I believe kindness is the very thing that makes us thrive.

I do not know how to thank you.''I can tell you, ' said Obierika. 'Kill one of your sons for me.''That will not be enough, ' said Okonkwo.'Then kill yourself, ' said Obierika.

Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.

We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children.

The way we choose to see the world creates the world we see.

One feels 'the dearth of human words, the roughness of mortal speech' in trying to describe things intangible.

We have something special...a culture which we do not think of as something for the elite, but as something which is accessible to practically everybody.

I was also known as Frodo because I was an early adopter of 'The Lord of the Rings.

The cliché organizes life; it expropriates people's identity; it becomes ruler, defense lawyer, judge, and the law.