What lurking temptations to forbidden tenderness find their finding-places in a woman's dressing-gown, when she is alone in her room at night!

We came to this world with love and hope to bloom like a flower, to beautify this garden we call earth, and spread the fragrance of happiness.

What I've said before, only half in joke, is that everybody in Ireland is famous. Or, maybe better, say everybody is familiar.

It's all about the attitude, gut, heart and determination to go out and give 120% every time to try and help the team win.

You're gonna have to serve somebody.

Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular form of the head, which is made by the stroke of a die.

Even in the sad songs, I want people to know that it won't always be like that.

I always carry a pistol when I go [to the New York Public Library]. Never did trust those stone lions.

Now that I'm over sixty, I'm veering toward respectability.

There are writers who say they have no social responsibility except to write a good book, but that doesn't satisfy me.

And if you ever need self-validation, Just meet me in the alley by the railway station