Rid the mind of knowledge when looking for pleasure. Or start thinking and find a lot of pain.

When I die, I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin. I wonder would they know it was me?

On Being Old. It's not nice but take comfort that you won't stay that way for ever.

Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.

I'm starved for love. Not ordinary love but real love. The love that's like music or something.

Dear Mr Skully, I have caught my neck in a mangle and will be indisposed for eternity. Yours in death S.D.

Expect the worst and that's what you'll get only it will be much worse.

I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.

The purpose of writing is to make your mother and father drop dead with shame.

Revenge is what I want. Nothing but pure unadulterated revenge. But my mother brought me up to be a lady.

I'm all for Christianity, but insolence must be put down.

Sensitive people feel so deeply they often have to retreat from the world, in order to dig beneath the layers of pain to find their faith and courage.

The science [of global warming] is beyond dispute... Delay is no longer an option. Denial is no longer an acceptable response

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.

It depends on each and every one of me.

Maybe they invited me because they know I have a tuxedo

And ordering me around is exactly the wrong way to make me do what you want.

Faith only grows through suffering.

O foolish writer. Now moves. Even in storytime, dreamtime, once-upon-a-time, now isn't then.

In North America and Western Europe, ten percent of the population of the world consumes fifty percent of its energy.

Always meet petulance with gentleness and perverseness with kindness. A gentle hand can lead even en elephant by a hair. Reply to thine enemy with gentleness.