Dramatist

It is a good deed to forget a poor joke.

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.

If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.

I am a drinker with writing problems.

The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream?

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.

I say myself no depressed words just depressed minds.

If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.

Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

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.

There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.

Seorang pria sudah setengah jatuh cinta kepada wanita yang mau mendengarkan omongannya dengan penuh perhatian.

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

I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.

Aku adalah pemabuk yang punya masalah menulis.

If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.

At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.

Mereka mengambil tanah kita, bahasa kita, dan agama kita, tetapi mereka tidak pernah bisa memanfaatkan lidah kita.