"I'm a drinker with writing problems."
- Brendan Behan
"I am a drinker with writing problems."
"I respect kindness in human beings first of all, and kindness to animals. I don't respect the law; I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safe..."
"There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary."
"A Torontonian is a man who leaves culture to his wife."
"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."
"It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody."
"We had gone out there to pass the beautiful day of high summer like true Irishmen - locked in the dark Snug of a public house."
"I am married to Beatrice Salkeld a painter. We have no children except me."
". . . 'twill turn your eyeballs black and blue."