Brendan Behan

"I sing to you because you are my people."

"I was not born with enough middle class morality to be a complete criminal."

"I am not interested in the private life of anyone."

"I am a writer and a drinker with a drinking problem."

"The worst of crimes is not to think at all."

"I have walked through the ordinary streets of Paris and wondered."

"A good laugh and a long sleep are the two best cures for anything."

"I was born Irish but I would prefer to be English if I had the choice."

"I have always admired the skill with which nations tell lies."

"Every step of an honest man is a bringer of news."

"There are only two possible explanations."

"I would not die for my beliefs but I would die for my country."

"I never spent a fortune on the best education money can buy."

"I cannot understand the squeamishness about the use of the arms we all have."

"I sing of the poor and the rich and they are all the same beneath the skin."

"Hold on to the night and the day."

"I am never more than two drinks away from another drink."

"What is an autobiography but a series of inventions."

"I am a Socialist and I believe in private enterprise."

"One could not plumb the depths of human stupidity."

"I have walked through many streets in Paris."

"The best thing about a good book is that you can never get to the end of what it is about."

"I have been poor and I have been rich and rich is better."

"I am as Marxist as I am Christian which is not to say I am very much of either."

"New York is a series of villages."

"I respect a man who sees life in the way I do."

"I have no belief in anything but I have faith in most things."

"I will never be a philosopher."

"The worst of crimes is apathy."

"I would like to be buried in a pub."