Brendan Behan

I am a daylight atheist.
Brendan Behan

The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.
Brendan Behan

Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops.
Brendan Behan

When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
Brendan Behan

It’s not that the Irish are cynical. It’s rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.
Brendan Behan

New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment… a place where you’re least likely to be bitten by a wild goat.
Brendan Behan

Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
Brendan Behan

I am a drinker with writing problems.
Brendan Behan

There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.
Brendan Behan

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

The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted.
Brendan Behan

All publicity is good, except an obituary notice.
Brendan Behan

Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it’s done, they’ve seen it done every day, but they’re unable to do it themselves.
Brendan Behan

What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
Brendan Behan

One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough.
Brendan Behan