I'm starved for love. Not ordinary love but real love. The love that's like music or something.

When I die, I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin. I wonder would they know it was me?

I'm all for Christianity, but insolence must be put down.

Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.

To marry the Irish is to look for poverty.

At the age of 18 I don't think that I thought very differently than I did at the age of 25. I think we instinctively have the knowledge and adapt the knowledge we need.

The purpose of writing is to make your mother and father drop dead with shame.