Occupation: Poet Birth: February 9, 1923 Death: March 20, 1964
I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It'd depend whose life..
Scream at God if that's the only thing that will get results..
What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides..
I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence..
The only thing I envy in young people is their livers..
I only take a drink on two occasions - when I'm thirsty and when I'm not..
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis..
I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse..
There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary..
The English and Americans dislike only some Irish--the same Irish that the Irish themselves detest, Irish writers--the ones that think..
Many a man has decided to stay alive not because of the will to live but because of the determination not to give assorted surviving bastards the sat….
Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves..
If you accept your limitations you go beyond them..
I'm a drinker with a writing problem..
No man can discover his own talents..
They took away our land, our language, and our religion; but they could never harness our tongues..
It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody..
Other people's interruptions of your work are relatively insignificant compared with the countless times you interrupt yourself..
When two men fight over a woman it's the fight they want, not the woman..
A general and a bit of shooting makes you forget your troubles ... it takes your mind off the cost of living..
When I'm talking to people I like to stop and quote myself. My quotes have a way of spicing up conversation..