A man should always be drunk, Minnie, when he talks politics — it's the only way in which to make them important. - Seán O'Casey

She dhresses herself to keep him with her, but it's no use — afther a month or two, th'wondher of a woman wears off.

It's I who know that well: when it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me.

The Drama's altar isn't on the stage: it is candlesticked and flowered in the box office. There is the gold, though there be no frankincense nor myrrh; and the gospel for the day always The Play will Run for a Year. The Dove of Inspiration, of the desire for inspiration, has flown away from it; and on its roof, now, the commonplace crow caws candidly.