An Irishman needs three things: silence, cunning, and exile.

As I am. As I am. All or not at all.

Civilization may be said indeed to be the creation of its outlaws.

A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

I am proud to be an emotionalist.

We are all born in the same way but we all die in different ways.

Life is too short to read a bad book.

There's many a true word spoken in jest.

Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.

Masturbation! The amazing availability of it!

To learn one must be humble. But life is a great teacher.

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. The longest way round is the shortest way home.

The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.

Thought is the thought of thought.

People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.

I care not if I live but a day and a night, so long as my deeds live after me.

Children must be educated by love, not punishment.

Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.

Let my country die for me.