Dublin was turning into Disneyland with super-pubs, a Purgatory open till five in the morning.

If you do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got. If what you are doing is not working, do something else.

Beliefs: Those things we hold to be true despite evidence to the contrary.

There is nothing worse than the ambitions of a talentless person.

Politics' the polite word for antediluvian prejudices, the rags put on by enmity and tribal resentment.

Dublin was turning into Disneyland with super-pubs, a Purgatory open till five in the morning.

The most important thing I would learn in school was that almost everything I would learn in school would be utterly useless. When I was fifteen I knew the principal industries of the Ruhr Valley, the underlying causes of World War One and what Peig Sayers had for her dinner every day...What I wanted to know when I was fifteen was the best way to chat up girls. That is what I still want to know.