"The affirmation of one's essential being in spite of desires and anxieties creates joy."

“I love movies that are saying things that people might find odd at times. I don't find them odd at all. They give me comfort.”

“We're working very closely with the RNC, hand in glove. I talked to Reince Priebus several times a day. Sean Spicer is here today. Katie Walsh is here often, the chief of staff there. We have a great - that is the party, and we have a great relationship with the party.”

“The stage of the development of the productive forces determines the political and ideological superstructure of society which are crystallized into a system of social organization.”

“It's raining my soul, it's raining, but it's raining dead eyes.”

Source : Guillaume Apollinaire (2010). “The Self-Dismembered Man: Selected Later Poems of Guillaume Apollinaire”, p.94, Wesleyan University Press

“They're mutually incompatible I feel; being a wise thief and a wise father.”

Source : Interview with Eric Goldman, www.ign.com. March 24, 2006.

“The biggest lesson I learned in the bar business is to focus on revenues. Dollars, not dimes.”

Source : Twitter post from Aug 12, 2016

“Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.”

“When I die, I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin. I wonder would they know it was me?”

Source : Ginger Man (1955) ch. 31