I think philosophy is extremely good training for anyone who wants to do anything. Although that is an idea which people may speak scornfully of now, I think it does teach one to

Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

That's how vile i am! I live Ireland, I breathe Ireland, and Christ how I loathe it, I wish I were a bloody Scot, that's how bloody awful it is being Irish!

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

Dogs are very different from cats in that they can be images of human virtue. They are like us.

Every artist is an unhappy lover.

Another person's illness is often harder to bear than one's own.