I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

I wish I'd been a mixed infant.

Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn't affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.

The English and Americans dislike only some Irish--the same Irish that the Irish themselves detest, Irish writers--the ones that think.

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

There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.

An author's first duty is to let down his country.