Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

You don't get tired of muffins, but you don't find inspiration in them.

I've posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin's Thinker, but I merely looked constipated.

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.

God help England if she had no Scots to think for her.

You accepted Allah or you had your throat cut by someone who did accept him, and who went to Paradise for having sent you to Hell.