The airline industry is full of bullshitters, liars and drunks. We excel at all three in Ireland.

People say the customer is always right, but you know what - they're not. Sometimes they are wrong and they need to be told so.

‎‎‎‎Short of committing murder, negative publicity sells more seats than positive publicity.

Are we going to say sorry for our lack of customer service? Absolutely not.

We should try to eliminate things that unnecessarily piss people off.

Air transport is just a glorified bus operation.

The airline business is it is mostly run by a bunch of spineless nincompoops who actually don't want to stand up to the environmentalists and call them the lying wankers that they are.

If global warming meant temperatures rose by one or two degrees, France would become a desert, which would be no bad thing. The Scots would grow wine and make buffalo mozzarella.

One of the weaknesses of the company now is it is a bit cheap and cheerful and overly nasty, and that reflects my personality.

I have more money than I am ever going to need. Financially, I'm fine for the next couple of hundred years.

Why does every plane have two pilots? Really, you only need one pilot. Let's take out the second pilot. Let the bloody computer fly it.

We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives, Who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best.

Here's a health to our Captain, so gallant and freeWhether stuck on a rock or asleep 'neath a treeOr rolled in the arms of some nymph of the seaWhich is where we would all like to be, man!

Inventions have long-since reached their limit--and I see no hope for further developments." -- Julius Frontinus, world-famous engineer (Rome, 10 AD)

We can get rid of red tape.

If you want to be happy, you listen to the music; if you want to be sad, you listen to the words.

The Biblical worldview is not given to us in the discursive and analytical language of philosophy and science, but in rich and compact language of symbolism and art.

When I was on acid, I would see things like beams of light and I would hear sounds that sounded an awful lot like car horns.

How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.

Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.

Ambition is a commendable attribute, without which no man succeeds. Only inconsiderate ambition imperils.