I don't approve the informality in the world today, Mr. James. It's made strangers of us all.

Don't sell your soul to buy peanuts for the monkeys.

There’s no snobbery like that of the poor toward one another.

The law is above the law, you know.

History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it.

We reveal more of ourselves in the lies we tell than we do when we try to tell the truth.

No one who likes a song lacks congeniality.

Flattery makes fools of the best of us.

Beware of feelings, Father. They are the biggest liars in us. They make truth what we want it to be.

Very often adverse criticism goes to craft, and that sounds an alarm to which attention should be paid.

It's a great wonder to me, the Irish attachment to our history. What is it but a series of lamentations?

Some say art is our highest form of hope. . . . Perhaps it's our only hope.

I have a life that did not become, that turned aside and stopped, astonished

Remember that life is short and death is long.

Getting even throws everything out of balance.

The horse does not eat cucumber salad

At that age you think boys have as much personality as coat hangers and, you don't notice their looks. Then you grow up.

I believe that a man should be... as big as he feels it in him to be!

Be drug-free and smoke some crack.

I'll do anything for free stuff.

I think we're going a bit too fast at the minute. The rate we're going is like we're going over the edge of the hill.