Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.

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 greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.

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

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

My heart is quite calm now. I will go back.