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

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.

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.

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

You can build up expectations for a song before you record it, and then it's like nothing's good enough in the studio.

I'm a character actor but unlike a lot of character actors, I don't look radically different from film to film and there was a bunch of them at once.

The prices are ridiculous... I don't see how people can go back and forth to work or to school. How can we afford the gas?

I hold it a blasphemy to say that a man ought not to fight against authority: there is no great religion and no great freedom that has not done it, in the beginning.

He had mittens, Minjekahwun, Magic mittens made of deer-skin; When upon his hands he wore them, He could smite the rocks asunder, He could grind them into powder.

One night I dreamed that I painted a large American flag, and the next morning I got up and I went out and bought the materials to begin it.

So true is that unnatural generally means only uncustomary, and that everything which is usual appears natural.

I feel these days like a very large flamingo. No matter what way I turn, there is always a very large bill.

The challenge of our time is to find a journey worthy of your heart and your soul.

A man is nothing but breath and shadow.