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. ”