Brendan Behan

Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.

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

The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.

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.

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

A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.

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

Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.

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

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.