If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.

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

God forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.

Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.

I'm a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.

Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.

Every cripple has his own way of walking.

I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.

There is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman.

If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.

I ruined my health drinking to other people's.

Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.

Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.

The terrorist is the one with the small bomb.

The only thing I envy in young people is their livers.

I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it w

I speak my own sins; I cannot judge another. I have no tongue for it.

If I have to be alone I want to be by myself.

When today fails to offer the justification for hope, tomorrow becomes the only grail worth pursuing.