Brendan Behan

“A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.”

“At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.”

“Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.”

“Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.”

“Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.”

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

“All publicity is good, except an obituary notice.”

“If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.”

“I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.”

“No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today.”