What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.

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.

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.

Omnia Mutantur, Nihil Interit. 'Everything changes, but nothing is truly lost.

See yourself in the mirror of your mind to find yourself.

I was always able to descend the uphills of my life faster than I could ascend its downhills.‬

The U.S. government needs to learn from successful private businesses that run an effective and efficient operation in serving their customers and outwitting their competitors.

For real human beings, the only realism is an embodied realism.

I don't know that I can say what exactly love means to me because it would be hard to put that into perspective.

The National Socialist Party in Austria never tried to hide its inclination for a greater Germany.

Each book first begins with a little idea.

These girls wouldn't let just anybody spew on their vital parts, they wanted a guy from a group with a big hit song on the charts.

Achievement is by all accounts to a great extent a matter of clinging after others have given up.