If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream?
All publicity is good, except an obituary notice.
What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
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.
No man can discover his own talents.
I am a drinker with writing problems.
What an author likes to write most is his signature on the back of a cheque.
I say myself no depressed words just depressed minds.
I wish I'd been a mixed infant.
It is a good deed to forget a poor joke.
