Conservatism is not a political ideology, it is a severe form of brain damage for which there's hardly any cure.
Organized religions have all the facets of organized crime, except the compassion of organized crime.
My purpose in life always has been to avoid work. And I hear these people saying, "I work hard and I pay my taxes." Well, you're an asshole.
I am an alcoholic, as I said. And it is however we call it, a disease. That's an explanation, but not an excuse.
Somebody once said that the Irish derived the greatest benefit from the English language. They court it like a beautiful woman. They make it bray with donkey laughter, they fling it at the sky like paint pots full of rainbow colors.
To me a saint is a severely edited sinner. That's what I think.
Do whatever you want because that's not what you are. That's what you do for the moment.
I failed everything in school. I left when I was 13 because I had no comprehension of what the hell they were talking about up there at the blackboard. I must have that ADD thing. But, listening to people I thought, that's wonderful to be able to tell a story.
I stay in the present, so I don't know about the future.
I am full of theories that are based on a very liquid foundation, because I used to be a drinker.
I was not a good father in my first marriage. Although there are ways of deserting the family without leaving physically, I was deserted in my head. I was always out, always in the saloons, always drinking, always messing about.
Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.
I tell my children, shut up and let me speak. What I've learned, I have been married for 45 years and in my own family It is that I've learned to stop being judgmental, to listen.
Being a kid myself, I loved playing and I loved playing with words, and making up things and riddles and songs and not afraid of being silly in public.
I see the way I look upon organized religion, I was a victim of that of mythology, and of cruelty, and all the absurd stuff.
Democracy to me is letting the other person speak and being dissenting without being disagreeable.
They don't allow a dying on the highway. No Passing. They give you a ticket if you die on the highway.
I've avoided work all my life, you see. So, I'm like a bee. I go from flower to flower.
I think people are so disillusioned with the parties. It's one party with two different names, and they are so spineless.
Alcoholism is a dread, an awful, and fatal disease.
Never make any reference to the other person's family. "You're just like your - " because that is out, completely.
There were a few people who got jobs in Limerick, a big barrel on wheels, and it was a barrel that went back and forth, and a shovel and a broom. So, they went around shoveling the horseshit into this barrel. So, you got that job when you were around 15, and then you got to retire at the age of 65, with a pension. A small pension. So that would be 50 years of shoveling horseshit. And I was advised very seriously that I should get that job.
This is the place for me where every single dream I ever had came to fruition and I love it dearly. I love ya, New York.
I would never become an alcoholic like my father because my father deserted us. But diseases, there's no let up.
I kind of miss the old sleazy Times Square, in a way. And yet I don't mind not being accosted by all sorts of strange people.
