The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense that otherwise they would not be given jobs minding mice at crossroads.

My father...was a man who understood all dogs thoroughly and treated them like human beings.

I am completely half afraid to think.

I saw that my witticism was unperceived and quietly replaced it in the treasury of my mind.

Hell goes round and round. In shape it is circular, and by nature it is interminable, repetitive, and nearly unbearable.

What you think is the point is not the point at all but only the beginning of the sharpness.

Anybody who has the courage to raise his eyes and look sanely at the awful human condition ... must realize finally that tiny periods of temporary release from intolerable suffering is the most that any individual has the right to expect.