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.

Many a man has decided to stay alive not because of the will to live but because of the determination not to give assorted surviving bastards the satisfaction of his death.

Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.

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

If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.

The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.

There's no bad publicity except an obituary.