Life is a long agonized illness only curable by death.
Said Hamlet to Ophelia,I’ll draw a sketch of thee.What kind of pencil shall I use?2B or not 2B?
A bird in The Strand is worth two in Shepherds Bush
My father was my greatest inspiration. He was a lunatic.
After Puckoon I swore I’d never write another book. This is it
The clock in the church tower said 4.32, as it had done for three hundred years. It was right once a day and that was better than no clock at all.
R.I.P.Tom Conlon O’Rourke.Not Dead, just Sleeping.
With a roof over his head he had ceased to work, living off his [war] pension and his wits, both hopelessly inadequate.
Life wasn’t too bad. The trouble with Man was, even while he was having a good time, he didn’t appreciate it. Why, thought Milligan, this very moment might be the happiest in me life. The very thought of it made him miserable.
Author? Author? Did you write these legs?”Yes.”‘Well, I don’t like dem. I don’t like ’em at all at all. I could ha’ writted better legs meself.
Many people die of thirst but the Irish are born with one.
Money can’t buy friends but you can get a better class of enemy.
Money can’t buy friends but you can get a better class of enemy.
Money can’t buy friends but you can get a better class of enemy.
Money can’t buy friends but you can get a better class of enemy.
Money can’t buy friends but you can get a better class of enemy.
Money can’t buy friends but you can get a better class of enemy.
Money can’t buy friends but you can get a better class of enemy.
Money can’t buy friends but you can get a better class of enemy.
Money can’t buy friends but you can get a better class of enemy.
Money can’t buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
I thought I’d begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare but then I thought Why should I? He never reads any of mine.
Money can’t buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
The experience of being in the Army changed my whole life; I never believed that an organization such as ours could ever go to war, leave alone win it. It was, as Yeats remarked of the Easter Rising, ‘A terrible beauty.’
All I ask is the chance to prove that money can’t make me happy.
Thankfully, we didn’t stop at Malta. I think Malta was thankful, too.
And God said, ‘Let there be light’ and there was light, but the Electricity Board said He would have to wait until Thursday to be connected.
I have the body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge.
It was a perfect marriage. She didn’t want to and he couldn’t.
A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree.
Money couldn’t buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.
When I get depressed, I try to get something for the terrible sadness that comes over me and create something in terms of poetry.
My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.