Then the crying started. First one child, a little girl called Jen from across the street, then another, then another, until the June afternoon sounded like a vacation in hell.

Am I worried about the future? I don't know. When I think of the word it's like seeing a cavity, a space where a tooth used to be.

Leaving the rat race is easy. All you have to do is quit your job, sell your house, and go and live in a tent in the middle of nowhere. It’s staying out of the rat race that’s tricky.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that History has to teach.

Selfish hedonism is not a pejorative. It is a description - an exactly accurate description of what is involved in homosexual relations.

There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing.

Only the tiniest fracton of mankind want freedom. All the rest want someone to tell them theyare free.

A lot of people say you've got all the loving in the world when you walk out on stage. But hell, that applause don't help you any when you're lying in that bed at night being totally ignored

[On what bugged him] A fine city with too many socialists and mosquitoes. At least you can spray the mosquitoes.

Instead of searching for what you do not have, find out what it is that you have never lost.

History must speak for itself. A historian is content if he has been able to shed more light.