They took away our land, our language, and our religion; but they could never harness our tongues.

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.

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

Go to God with your coal, and He will set them to blazing fire.

To be an investor you must be a believer in a better tomorrow.

In today's Republican Party, there's a term for people who hate charity and love killing: 'Christian.'

Unless the will is free, man has no freedom; and if he has no freedom he is not a moral agent, that is, he is incapable of moral action and also of moral character.

I became an ecologist long before I had ever heard the word.

There's nothing glamorous about war at all.

Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares

One of the biggest defects in life is the inability to ask for help.

Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about.

I once believed in Jenner; I once believed in Pasteur. I believed in vaccination. I believed in vivisection. But I changed my views as the result of hard thinking.