There's no bad publicity except an obituary.
It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
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.