Quotes from Malachy McCourt

Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

I had great faith that perhaps this man Obama would do something, but he is, we're all in the grip of big money.

There seems to be less obvious corruption in city government and New York politicians, they aren't Republican or Democrat, they're New Yorkers.

I had the taste of the alcohol since I was 11. It allowed me to be clever, charming and to behave outrageously. Acting also allowed me not to be me. So I could indulge every fantasy in this paradise of America.

This is the place for me where every single dream I ever had came to fruition and I love it dearly. I love ya, New York.

Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.

I absolutely love the public transportation system in New York. No matter what, no matter how people complain, it is the best in the world.

Do whatever you want because that's not what you are. That's what you do for the moment.

I wonder what I can do about war. Is it the destiny of human kind to eventually wipe ourselves out with these weapons of mass destruction? Are we stupid to think that we can control them?

The alcoholism got me and I ruined my first marriage with drinking and the lying and the deceit and infidelity, and all of that. The whole bloody thing.

Live every day as if it's going to be your last, and one day, you'll be right.

I've avoided work all my life, you see. So, I'm like a bee. I go from flower to flower.

When I'm writing in long hand, it just goes on and on and on. When I was in the saloon business, I would just greet people and talk to them and avoid taxes, and getting behind the bar. What else.

In Limerick, a family that was dysfunctional was one who could afford to drink but didn't.

A lie to me is a dream that might come true.

Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

If you have one foot in the past and one foot in the future, you're pissing on the present.

look, lust, and leave, knowing I could never have one of them for myself.

life can turn from being cheerful, warm and cozy to negative in a sec, and all it takes is us handing the power of happiness over to another human being.

The first item on a spiritual agenda is that I am not what I do, that I am what I am, and therefore I am a walking miracle, on a daily basis.

Never make any reference to the other person's family. "You're just like your - " because that is out, completely.

I would never become an alcoholic like my father because my father deserted us. But diseases, there's no let up.

I stay in the present, so I don't know about the future.