No community has ever yet passed beyond the initial phases in which its pugnacity and fanaticism enabled it to found a nation, and its cupidity to establish and develop a commercial civilization.

For nearly twenty years I have been a published author... But I have never yet seen a book of mine offered for sale in a shop window.

Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?

The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.

Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want.

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.

In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.