The only thing I envy in young people is their livers.

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

Being liked for the way you looked is worse than not being liked at all.

Imagination is a place where a rational mind travels in time to meet it's god, "The Infinite Mind"!

He was the journey she wanted to take. The landscape she wanted to walk. There wasn’t a part of him she didn’t want to roam.

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.

The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.

I am the world's worst salesman, therefore, I must make it easy for people to buy.

I am not saying that I want to ban Islam. I want less Islam in Europe because it doesn't allow any room for debate.

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

Security will produce danger.

The fox provides for himself, but God provides for the lion.