The sex relation is not a personal relation. It can be irresistibly desired and rapturously consummated between persons who could not endure one another for a day in any other relation.

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

Ireland, sir, for good or evil, is like no other place under heaven, and no man can touch its sod or breathe its air without becoming better or worse.

You can rave about Stravinsky without the slightest risk of being classified as a lunatic by the next generation .

You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

You have a choice of trusting the natural stability of gold, or the honesty and intelligence of members of government.