Ireland sober is Ireland stiff....

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.

Some mornings you wake up and think, gee I look handsome today. Other days I think, what am I doing in the movies? I wanna go back to Ireland and drive a forklift.

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.