“I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my abs...” — Brendan Behan Quote

“I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.”

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

“No man can discover his own talents.”

“Everyone has always said I look like Bailey, but I don't.”

“You have tasted of death now,” said the old man. “Is it good?”

“You can not die of grief, though it feels as if you can. A heart does not actually break, though sometimes your chest aches as if it is breaking. Grief dims with time. It is the way of things. There comes a day when you smile again, and you feel like a traitor. How dare I feel happy. How dare I be glad in a world where my father is no more. And then you cry fresh tears, because you do not miss him as much as you once did, and giving up your grief is another kind of death.”