A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.
At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.
I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.
The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.
One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough.
I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.
There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.
Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops.
A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.
Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.
I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today.
I am a daylight atheist.
The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted.
Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.
