The only thing I envy in young people is their livers.

Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.

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

I am a drinker with writing problems.

Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.

In a society which really supported marriage the wife would be encouraged to go to the office and make love to her husband on the company's time and with its blessing.

Scream at God if that's the only thing that will get results.