My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play.

My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.

A thing well done is worth doing.

There is only one immutable law in life - in a gentleman's toilet, incoming traffic has the right of way.

Sometimes silence resolves a conversation confused by Mad Misconstruction.

Gossip is more popular than literature.

The problem with Ireland is that it's a country full of genius, but with absolutely no talent.

I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it.

Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed.

An Irishman will always soften bad news, so that a major coronary is no more than 'a bad turn' and a near hurricane that leaves thousands homeless is 'good drying weather'.

In life there exist two classes: first class and no class.

Freedom is not for the timid.

I know that you should always say yes to adventures or you'll lead a very dull life.

I would say that workers in general, and white workers particularly, are correct that their economic wellbeing is deteriorating.

What is more important in a library than anything else-than everything else-is the fact that it exists.

A teacher is really invaluable. A teacher will instruct you in how to stabilize your energy field, increase it, and decrease the loss of energy in your life and how to be balanced, wise, and funny.

There is no radical or moderate Islam. There is only one Islam and that is the Islam from the Koran, the holy book. That is the Islam from Mohammed. There are no two sorts of Islam.

The best way to refine an interpretation is by getting out and performing.

The international community is unwilling to accept the policies of the Iranian regime.

The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for.