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

To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory.

Every cripple has his own way of walking.

There's no bad publicity except an obituary.

If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.

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

I am a drinker with writing problems.