“They went and found somewhere, and had a sorting out, nothing held back. Sometimes nothing less than savage discharge can express, can explain, can release the hard, hard place we're in.”

“Fookin' Irish, they're a race of political masochists, they love their fookin' chiefs and princes an' a strong hand belting. It's like the man said in the play, Abair and focal republic i nGaoluinn?”

“The crucial thing here is not to listen to your mind. Your mind has got its basic communication lines crossed. If you try to fly in this flak you will shoot down your own aircraft. Keep close to yourself...fly under your own radar. Let the anti-aircraft guns discharge their ammunition into the plaid sky. Steal home, undetected even by yourself. Whatever you do, in this state, don't think.”

“Life can be hard in the real world.”

“Doing nothing is hard. You never know when you're done.--T-SHIRT”

“Innocence is a double edged sword - Nothing else can make the world more wonderous or deadly.”

“We can win.We can lose.We can fall down.We can get up and do it over again, better.We can go for it as if we have nothing to lose, knowing we have everything to lose....We can tear up a dance floor and put it all back together again.We can talk loud in public.We can be fierce.We can be small.We can be mighty.We can be too much.We can be just enough, just in time.We can.We have to.”