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.

Some suggestions for you :

All publicity is good, except an obituary notice.

New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment... a place where you're least likely to be bitten by a wild goat.

Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.

What an author likes to write most is his signature on the back of a cheque.

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.

If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.

I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.

I say myself no depressed words just depressed minds.

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

The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.

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

He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.

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

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