If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.

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.

There are no racists in America, or at least none that the people who need to be white know personally.

How sleep the brave who sink to rest. By all their country's wishes blest!

Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

The night swelled with magic; not the beneficent kind of love-magic that sweeps couples away, but the kind of magic that rips and tears, the enchantment that creeps out of the woods and pounces.

Secrets can be poisonous.

Leadership is defined as authentic transformative energy that adds value to others

We are not separate. So if one being hurts, I also hurt.

If prayers worked, Hitler would have been stopped at the border of Poland by angels with swords of fire.

The highest triumph of art, is the truest presentation of nature.

Mirror becomes a razor when it's broken. A stick becomes a flute when it's loved.