The terrorist is the one with the small bomb.

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.

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

Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still you'll find an edge to cut you.

The taste of moon is like honey to all honeymooners, but after some years does the moon's scar make it bitter?

God will always turn trials, national and personal into the manifestation of His glory

The heart is always young only in the recollection of those whom it has loved in youth.

I have always been mainstream. It's so weird, because I don't see it as something negative at all. So many people see it as something negative.

I'm fascinated with the electronic devices that we can mess around with.

What I hope is I'll eventually be seen as an actual individual, not as some abstraction - an art dealer running a museum.

Just because it's in print doesn't mean it's the gospel.

It's a little premature to be claiming that this is a done deal, but certainly Rex Tillerson is American icon and businessman that I think is a pretty incredible guy.

I would much rather not be the center of attention, and I'd much rather travel and be writing my novel, rather than standing on a stage and trying to get people to understand something.