The gun is not out of Irish politics.

Line dancing is as sinful as any other type of dancing, with its sexual gestures and touching. It is an incitement to lust.

I would never repudiate the fact that I am an Irishman

Never confuse sitting on your side with being on your side.

Catholic homes caught fire because they were loaded with petrol bombs.

Don't come crying to me if your homes are attacked. You will reap what you sow.

We're on the verge of civil war in Northern Ireland. Why? Because if you take away the forums of democracy you don't have anything left.

You can't build the bridge of trust with the scaffolding of lies and underhand deals

I would rather be British than just.

Come Friday, the world will see what the Protestant people really think of this so-called peace process, which is really a surrender process.

We are not going into government with Sinn Fein.

My whole marriage to her, I finally realized, was a placeholder, leading me to this very day.

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.

For the most part, when you're on set, you know everything's fake. You're very aware of the fact that you're shooting a television show.

He must have known me if he had seen me as he was wont to see me, for he was in the habit of flogging me constantly. Perhaps he did not recognize me by my face.

I want to be my usual painstaking, cautious, slow, conservative self in analyzing it.

Language makes culture, and we make a rotten culture when we abuse words.

If you look after goodness and truth, beauty will take care of itself.

Sleep not when others speak, sit not when others stand, speak not when you should hold your peace, walk not when others stop.

I love Sherlock Holmes. There's still an awful lot to steal from Conan Doyle. But within a tradition you can work in many different ways.