An index is a great leveller.

In the right key one can say anything. In the wrong key, nothing: the only delicate part is the establishment of the key.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

Nationalism must now be added to the refuse pile of superstitions. We are now citizens of the world, and the man who divides the race into elect Irishmen and reprobate foreign devils (especially Englishmen) had better live on the Blaskets where he can admire himself without disturbance.

It is clear that a novel cannot be too bad to be worth publishing. . . . It certainly is possible for a novel to be too good to be worth publishing.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler; I don't like beer.