I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.

I like a bit of mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

I claim to be a conscientiously immoral writer.

Patriotism is a word which always commemorates a robbery.

Fine art is the only teacher except torture.

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.