To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory.
Every cripple has his own way of walking.
The English and Americans dislike only some Irish--the same Irish that the Irish themselves detest, Irish writers--the ones that think.
You made one mistake. You married me.
I'm a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted.