There was no doubt about it: if you wanted to succeed you had to go away. You could do nothing in Dublin.

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.

A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.