The English and Americans dislike only some Irish--the same Irish that the Irish themselves detest, Irish writers--the ones that think.

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.

The beauty of collaboration between older and younger generations is that we combine strength with wisdom—a surefire way to accomplish more for the glory of God.

Love without reason—bloom without season.

Thanks to my art, I now know who I am.

L.A.'s large convenience stores are so big they can accommodate up to twenty armed robbers at one time.

The Shuttle is to space flight what Lindbergh was to commercial aviation.

I didn't choose painting, it chose me.I didn't have a talent,i just had genius

(Djinn are essentially vapor.) "I blew him away.

I'm not heart-broken if I don't have a hit. But I guess a hit would help. It makes the money go up a bit.

Introverts living under the Extroversion Ideal are like women in a man's world, discounted because of a trait that goes to the core of who they are.

Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process.