For a time they confronted each other like two mute unspeaking forts.

Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.

Fear ringed by doubt is my eternal moon.

How, unless you drink as I do, could you hope to understand the beauty of an old Indian woman playing dominoes with a chicken?

What is man but a little soul holding up a corpse?

Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third.

Never think that by releasing me you will be free. You would only condemn us to an ultimate hell on earth. You would only free something else to destroy us both.

Only against death does man cry out in vain.

I like prefaces. I read them. Sometimes I do not read any further.

How shall the murdered man convince his assassin he will not haunt him.

Perhaps his tragedy is that he is the one normal writer left on earth and it is this that adds to his isolation and so to his sense of guilt.

A savage place! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover!

Either loyalty and love are same things, or loyalty is certainly a better kind of love than love.

I've learned from personal experience that insecurity and doubting yourself can really hurt you.

If you appreciate your life, if you appreciate your job, if you appreciate yourself, if you appreciate your surroundings-poor or rich, whatever they are-you are divine.

It's how you live that really counts

Making ziti for the Chicago Fire Department! I hope they're not too busy today, but this should fill their bellies I hope they like it!

How you first meet the public is how the industry sees you. You can't argue with them. That's their perception.

I'm disrespectful towards authority. I think the prime minister of Ireland is a gobshite.

I'm not a pacifist. I'm not that brave.

The first essential for an attack is the will to attack.