One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.

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.

Oh! Polly thought. Why aren't all girls locked up by law the year they turn fifteen? They do such stupid things!

As my son Frankie put it, Humanism has changed the Twenty-third Psalm: They began - I am my shepherd. Then - Sheep are my shepherd. Then - Everything is my shepherd. Finally - Nothing is my shepherd.

The finest inheritance you can give a child is to allow it to make its own way completely on its own feet.

He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.

Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.

One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man.

I don't particularly like photos of myself, though.

Hey ma, your bad boy did good!

The meteor flag of England Shall yet terrific burn, Till danger's troubled night depart, And the star of peace return.

Countries that innovate first get the new jobs, developing an economic edge over the C-free laggards that end up having to later import the technology.