Quotes from J. P. Donleavy

The purpose of writing is to make your mother and father drop dead with shame.

To marry the Irish is to look for poverty.

At the age of 18 I don't think that I thought very differently than I did at the age of 25. I think we instinctively have the knowledge and adapt the knowledge we need.

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

I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.

And no. I must not go on thinking. For the pain will never go away. You just go on and live. In the dust of desertion. Still falling where last I loved.

If you're going to love somebody, love somebody who needs it.

The inhabitants will always see both sides of an argument so long as it can result in a fight.

Dear Mr Skully, I have caught my neck in a mangle and will be indisposed for eternity. Yours in death S.D.

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

When I die, I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin. I wonder would they know it was me?