There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?.

It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. read more

It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. Even the stain on the coffee cup seems not coffee but the physical manifestation of one's inner stain, the fatal blot that from the beginning had marked one for ultimate aloneness.

When he shall die Take him and cut him in little stars And he will make the face of heaven read more

When he shall die Take him and cut him in little stars And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.

God's finger touched him, and he slept.

God's finger touched him, and he slept.

Poverty is the worst form of death.

Poverty is the worst form of death.

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs read more

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea.

You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea.

Either this man is dead
or my watch has stopped.

Either this man is dead
or my watch has stopped.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!.