Reputation ... is as often gained without merit as lost without a crime.

Is it not monstrous that our seducers should be our accusers?

when a swinging sin is to be committed, there is nothing like a gown and a cassock to cover it.

by the general love of scandal and detraction in Dublin, one might reasonably imagine they were all to feed themselves through the holes which they had made in the characters of others.

I was most incorrigibly devoted to versifying, and all my spouse's wholesome admonitions had no manner of effect on me; in short, I believe this scribbling itch is an incurable disease.

The first time you succeed it is chance

There’s real evil, Mr Honey. Not that existential crap, either.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

I was imprisoned as an innocent person, it's common sense not to go back.

We passed the hash pipe and played our Doors tapes.

Most of us come to the church by a means the church does not allow.

No matter where you go, you are what you are playa.

Human life-everybody lives it, but only to a few is it known.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, in business, so is a number.

It seems that fiction no longer produces work that makes one feel the human condition deeply.