It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.
Brendan BehanThe English and Americans dislike only some Irish--the same Irish that the Irish themselves detest, Irish writers--the ones that think.
Brendan BehanOther people's interruptions of your work are relatively insignificant compared with the countless times you interrupt yourself.
Brendan BehanWhat the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
Brendan Behan