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

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

It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.

If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.

Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.

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.