In a society which really supported marriage the wife would be encouraged to go to the office and make love to her husband on the company's time and with its blessing.

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.

You are not in the kingdom by accident

Even when the truth is in fact simple, simplicity is still relative.

I wonder what it means when your grandson is more crotchety than you are.

There is nothing more American than brutal violence. The country was built on it, revels in it and shows every evidence of clinging to it with the crazed, destructive strength of an obsessive lover.

I don't really advocate for psychedelics. I don't really think anybody needs to do them, or has to do them. For me, they were the only way I could have cracked open my own spirit in a way.

I am trying to teach my children to feel a responsibility for their fellow human beings and a sense of connection with ... the world around them.

A lot has been written about the merits and problems with detox but it is definitely worth it overall.

I'm sayin', why spend mine when I can spend yours?

An opinion which excites no opposition at all is not worth having!

I will never give in to old age until I become old. And I'm not old yet!