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You can't teach in a vacuum. A good teacher relates the material to real life. You understand that, don't you?

In New York, with Prohibition in full swing, he thought he had died and gone o hell for his sins. Then he discovered speakeasies and he rejoiced.

I think I settled on the title before I ever wrote the book.

They can afford to smile because they all have teeth so dazzling if they dropped them in the snow they'd be lost forever.

That's what he disliked about certain artists and writers. They interfered and pointed to everything as if you couldn't see it or read for yourself.

I don't know what it means and I don't care because it's Shakespeare and it's like having jewels in my mouth when I say the words.

Sing your song. Dance your dance. Tell your tale.

The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice.

I can't go too much into my domestic life because there are ex-wives ready to do me in.

When I act tough they listen politely till the spasm passes. They know.

I can't go back. The past won't go away in this family ...

A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse

The main thing I am interested in is my experience as a teacher.

Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow.

They said her duck recipe and the Chinese music were so dramatic everything else sounded anemic.

I've been writing in notebooks for 40 years or so.

I am teaching. Storytelling is teaching.

Shakespeare is like mashed potatoes, you can never get enough of him.

he'll make Catholics of us,

Teaching is bringing the news.

It's lovely to know that the world can't interfere with the inside of your head.

If 'tis a sin, I don't give a Fiddler's fart!

My childhood here ... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn.

After a full belly all is poetry.

I'm more interested in writing than in performing.

What are they, Dad? Cows, son. What are cows, Dad? Cows are cows, son. We

If you have anything to say, shut up!

The happy childhood is hardly worth your while.

I'm in New York, land of the free and home of the brave, but I'm supposed to behave as if I were in Limerick at all times.

Love her as in childhood
Through feeble, old and grey.
For you'll never miss a mother's love
Till she's buried beneath the clay.

You have to give yourself credit, not too much because that would be bragging.

I just have to proceed as usual. No matter what happens, nothing helps with the writing of the next book.

I say, Billy, what's the use in playing croquet when you're doomed?
He says, Frankie, what's the use of not playing croquet when you're doomed?

For many writers, the journal is their opportunity to be honest with them- selves - the greatest test of all.

A mother's love is a blessing
No matter where you roam.
Keep her while you have her,
You'll miss her when she's gone.

I asked my dad what afflicted meant and he said 'Sickness son, and things that don't fit.

I was sick of my miserable childhood, too, the way it followed me across the Atlantic and kept nagging at me to be made public.

You feel a sense of urgency, especially at my advanced age, when you're staring into the grave.

Nobody ever told them they had a right to an opinion.

I am not living the American Dream; I am living the American fantasy.

I felt so happy I could barely stay in my skin

A job is death without dignity.

I learned the significance of my own insignificant life.

For once, mam, my bladder isn't near my eye and why isn't it?

I don't believe in happiness anyway ... it's too much of an American pastime, this search for happiness. Just forget happiness and enjoy your misery.

We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely.

Limerick gained a reputation for piety, but we knew it was only the rain.

Where did I get the nerve to think I could handle American teenagers? Ignorance. That's where I got the nerve.

There's nothing sillier in the world than a teacher telling you don't do it after you already did it.

I don't give a fiddler's fart!

Stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it.

Bless me, Father, for I have sinned, it's been a minute since my last confession.

There's so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd.

Ooh, aren't we getting solemn, and where did I leave my soapbox? Look

If you were mean to your parents, they'd give you a good belt in the gob and send you flying across the room.

The English wouldn't give you the steam of their piss.

You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.

I am for who i was in the beginning but now is present and i exist in the future.

This is the situation in the public schools of America: The farther you travel from the classroom the greater your financial and professional rewards.

Keep scribbling! Something will happen.

Your mind is a treasure house that you should stock well and it's the one part of you the world can't interfere with.

That IS what journal writing is all about - showing ourselves to God.

Teacher? I never dreamed I could rise so high in the world