“Any man who barely sustains an armistice with himself has no business poking around in an alien soul.”

“We cannot hope to create a sustainable culture with any but sustainable souls.”

“Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not.So I will throw Veterans' Day over my shoulder. Armistice Day I will keep. I don't want to throw away any sacred things.What else is sacred? Oh, Romeo and Juliet, for instance.And all music is.”

“Every man who has in his soul a secret feeling of revolt against any act of the State, of life, or of destiny, is on the verge of riot; and so soon as it appears, he begins to quiver, and to feel himself borne away by the whirlwind.”

“Any man who has got himself set over others and don't have any responsibility to something bigger than him is a son of a bitch.”

“The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.”