To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory..

Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing..

The sun was in mind to come out but having a look at the weather it was in lost heart and went back again..

One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough..

An author's first duty is to let down his country..

They took away our land, our language, and our religion; but they could never harness our tongues..

Scream at God if that's the only thing that will get results..

I'm a drinker with a writing problem..

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..

No man can discover his own talents..

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

When I'm talking to people I like to stop and quote myself. My quotes have a way of spicing up conversation..

Other people's interruptions of your work are relatively insignificant compared with the countless times you interrupt yourself..

I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It'd depend whose life..

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..