That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.

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.

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

Heartbreak could be lived with if it weren't accompanied by regret.

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing did certain persons die before they sing.

It's not just the making of babies, but the making of mothers that midwives see as the miracle of birth.

Try to discover your true, honest, untheoretical self.

Was it a millionaire who said, "Imagine no possessions"?

Our lives are shaped as much by those who leave us as they are by those who stay. Loss is our legacy. Insight is our gift. Memory is our guide

Television represents what happens to a medium when the artists have no power and the businessmen are in full, unquestioned control.

The visible is how we orient ourselves. It remains our principal source of information about the world. Painting reminds us of what is absent. What we don't see anymore.

Even if our every attempt is a failure, and we bleed and are torn asunder, yet, through all this, we have to preserve our heart - we must assert our Godhead in the midst of all these difficulties.