Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn't affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.

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.

Blessed are the weird people: poets, misfits, writersmystics, painters, troubadoursfor they teach us to see the world through different eyes.

I build my world with the pages of a book.

Taking his hand I said "Fank woo.""Hm " he laughed with his mouth closed.

I had several girlfriends, but nothing lasted. I’d date one for a few months, and then start thinking: This isn’t what I want.

Good food, good vibes. Keep up the good work.

There are so many international musical connections here, in Amsterdam. And some of them are amazingly successful.

To every man, even though he be a slave, the light of heaven is sweet.

When I need a word and do not find it in French, I select it from other tongues, and the reader has either to understand or translate me. Such is my fate.

Arms alone are not enough to keep the peace. It must be kept by men.

President Reagan is a rhetorical roundheels, as befits a politician seeking empathy with his audience.