We are not going into government with Sinn Fein.

Line dancing is as sinful as any other type of dancing, with its sexual gestures and touching. It is an incitement to lust.

I would never repudiate the fact that I am an Irishman

Never confuse sitting on your side with being on your side.

Catholic homes caught fire because they were loaded with petrol bombs.

Don't come crying to me if your homes are attacked. You will reap what you sow.

We're on the verge of civil war in Northern Ireland. Why? Because if you take away the forums of democracy you don't have anything left.

You can't build the bridge of trust with the scaffolding of lies and underhand deals

I would rather be British than just.

Come Friday, the world will see what the Protestant people really think of this so-called peace process, which is really a surrender process.

I have never made an inflammatory statement in my life

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

So black is my heart for it is buried in the fiery chasm of untameable passion. It beats in the dark recesses of unquenchable thirst for love and desire from which there is no return...

Democrats are afraid of polls. Republicans aren't afraid of polls. Republicans make polls. Democrats run from polls.

The greater our present trials, the louder will our future songs be, and the more intense our joyful gratitude.

In Hollywood there's no real material. They would send me stuff, but I hadn't even seen the director. If I don't see the director's eyes, I'm not going. I'm not even going to pack my bags.

There's nothing wrong with losing your temper for the right reasons.

Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next Gone With the Wind.

Here are the Ten Commandments for a writer: Create, Create, Create, Create, Create, Create.

Democracy, in any rational form, also imposes conditions on majority rule. That's what the Bill of Rights is about, for example.

Try something new each day. After all, we're given life to find it out. It doesn't last forever.