It was a piece of thoroughly picturesque and proper violence. I like a violent man, really, a man who's a bit of a brute in a decent straightforward way.

That's how vile i am! I live Ireland, I breathe Ireland, and Christ how I loathe it, I wish I were a bloody Scot, that's how bloody awful it is being Irish!

Mercifully one forgets one's love affairs as one forgets one's dreams.

I felt a deep grief that crouched and stayed still as if it was afraid to move.

It is necessary to write, that much is clear, and to write in a way quite unlike any way which I have employed before.

Jealousy is perhaps the most involuntary of all strong emotions. It steals consciousness, it lies deeper than thought. It is always there, like a blackness in the eye, it discolours the world.

But it was just luck really if the girls survived. You're like a man firing a machine gun into a supermarket who happens not to become a murderer.

Love doesn't think like that. All right, it's blind as a bat--''Bats have radar. Yours doesn't seem to be working.

Money can't buy happiness, but it certainly is a stress reliever.

One can never pay in gratitude one can only pay "in kind" somewhere else in life.

May the Lord answer you when you are in distress May the name of the God of Jacob protect you May he send you help from the sanctuary and grant you support from Zion.

For an idea which, at first, does not seem absurd, there is no hope.

Men are handicapped when it comes to arguing, 'cause we have a need to make sense.

We have to do more about addiction, not only drugs, but also alcohol.

Lying to a committee is a very grave abuse, and there ought to be a clear punishment.

She never liked me much, but she sure loved me

I admire Ginsberg as a poet, despite the fact that he seems not to know when he is being good and when he is bad. But he will last, or at least those poems will last.

America is one long expectoration.