"The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted."

"When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence."

"It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody."

"The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less."

"Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence."

"I knew that by getting behind the wheel of the car and having had something to drink, the responsibility laid on my shoulders."

"There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink."

"It's easy for Americans to forget that the food they eat doesn't magically appear on a supermarket shelf."