It's one day at a time, that's all there is to it, and so I don't have to worry about it. All I do is, okay, I do not have to drink. And if I feel like it, I postpone it for ten minutes, and that way I find something else to do in the meantime.

I would never become an alcoholic like my father because my father deserted us. But diseases, there's no let up.

If you look up the word "gab" in the dictionary, it's insignificant of importance, of no substance. That's what gab is.

Somebody once said that the Irish derived the greatest benefit from the English language. They court it like a beautiful woman. They make it bray with donkey laughter, they fling it at the sky like paint pots full of rainbow colors.

That's my punishment in hell, shoveling horseshit.

I wonder what I can do about war. Is it the destiny of human kind to eventually wipe ourselves out with these weapons of mass destruction? Are we stupid to think that we can control them?

Never make any reference to the other person's family. "You're just like your - " because that is out, completely.