To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory.

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.

When you stop living for luxuries, you understand the real meaning of life.

When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril.

My grandmother, whom we call Biel, thinks it's very unbecoming of me not to smile for the paparazzi. So every time I see them, I think, 'Smile for Biel!'

I'm known as a winner now.

A thriller becomes great when it carries a feeling of reality and truth.

In 1990 we ran across Europe through 13 countries and covering 7,130 miles.

For the Puritans, the God-centered life meant making the quest for spiritual and moral holiness the great business of life.

I don't jog. It makes the ice jump right out of my glass.

To take nature and natural play away from children may be tantamount to withholding oxygen.