I'm all for Christianity, but insolence must be put down.

When I die, I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin. I wonder would they know it was me?

On Being Old. It's not nice but take comfort that you won't stay that way for ever.

Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.

I'm starved for love. Not ordinary love but real love. The love that's like music or something.

Dear Mr Skully, I have caught my neck in a mangle and will be indisposed for eternity. Yours in death S.D.

Expect the worst and that's what you'll get only it will be much worse.

I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.

The purpose of writing is to make your mother and father drop dead with shame.

Revenge is what I want. Nothing but pure unadulterated revenge. But my mother brought me up to be a lady.

Rid the mind of knowledge when looking for pleasure. Or start thinking and find a lot of pain.

As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book.

Know yourself and go in swinging, if it hurts when you hit, it might be real, too.

I am free.I am free.I am free.

I love water - I'm an Aquarius, but that has nothing to do with it - and I've never been away from water in any place.

I met this cowboy with a brown paper hat, paper waistcoat and paper trousers. He was wanted for rustling.

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.

When God says no, we are sometimes tempted to wonder if He loves us. In reality, it’s because He loves us, He sometimes says no.

He sighed. " I don't think an apology will do, Mercy. Because an apology implies that you wouldn't do it again. And, under the circumstances, you wouldn't do anything differently, would you?" "No.

The Democrats, because they believe in socialism, redistribution, forced the banks and financial institutions to make the risky loans.