The English wouldn't give you the steam of their piss.

It’s lovely to know that the world can’t interfere with the inside of your head.

He says, You have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can't make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. You might be poor , your shoes might be broken , but your mind is a palace.

We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely.

I can't go too much into my domestic life because there are ex-wives ready to do me in.

Oh, God above, if heaven has a taste it must be an egg with butter and salt, and after the egg is there anything in the world lovelier than fresh warm bread and a mug of sweet golden tea?

A mother's love is a blessing No matter where you roam. Keep her while you have her, You'll miss her when she's gone -- Angela's Ashes.