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

If you were mean to your parents, they'd give you a good belt in the gob and send you flying across the room.

I am teaching. Storytelling is teaching

They can afford to smile because they all have teeth so dazzling if they dropped them in the snow they'd be lost forever.

I've been writing in notebooks for 40 years or so.

I appealed to my mother. I told her it wasn't fair the way the whole family was invading my dreams and she said, Arrah, for the love o' God, drink your tea and go to school and stop tormenting us with your dreams.

Andy says, I don't understand how they can give loans to people who want to spend two weeks lying on the sand at the goddam Jersey shore and then turn down a woman with three kids hanging on by her fingernails.