The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
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.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.