I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there's nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There's a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of.

An Irishman will always soften bad news, so that a major coronary is no more than 'a bad turn' and a near hurricane that leaves thousands homeless is 'good drying weather'.

In life there exist two classes: first class and no class.

My wife and I have enjoyed over forty years of wedded blitz.

I don't think anyone is the perfect one to play me.

Sometimes silence resolves a conversation confused by Mad Misconstruction.

I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it.