Brendan Behan

"I respect the policeman's job, but I don't respect many policemen."

"To write is to sit in judgment of oneself."

"I think the worst sin is to be boring."

"In the end, we all get what we deserve."

"There is no such thing as a hopeless situation, only people who despair."

"I have done my duty to my country."

"I am a daydrammer and a nightdrammer."

"There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary."

"I respect kindness to great buildings and all kinds of great lands."

"People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one."

"An author's first duty is to entertain. It is no use being funny or wise if the reader is too bored to read your book."

"I have never understood this liking for war. It pains, it wounds, it kills."

"The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to live without purpose."

"I'm a drinker with writing problems."

"A man that hasn't faced death yet hasn't started living."

"Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end."

"I have one ambition left: I want to write a book about drink."

"You're a queer fella. That's the nicest compliment I could give."

"The worst crime against working people is a government that fails to provide them with full employment."

"I am an old-fashioned man with mostly old-fashioned tastes."

"There's no such thing as an ordinary human being."

"An Irishman is never at peace except when he's fighting."

"I was made in China."

"The most important things are the hardest things to say, because words diminish them."

"I thank you for the flowers, but not for the weeds."

"I define an interesting man as one who is interested in things."

"There's no place like home, except the pub."

"Waiting for the German verb is supposedly the richest moment of German literature."

"I'm going to live forever or die in the attempt."

"The only time I really live is when I'm performing."