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" My sister died in Brooklyn. "

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" And, of course, they've always condemned dancing. You know, you might touch a member of the opposite sex. And you might get excited and you might do something natural. "

" I don't see myself as either Irish or American, I'm a New Yorker. "

" When I was a kid, I was a pretty good runner, and there was nothing like winning a race. "

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" The happy childhood is hardly worth your while. "

Happy Childhood

" I can't go too much into my domestic life because there are ex-wives ready to do me in. "

" I've had experiences on both sides of the ocean and various classrooms and bedrooms around New York. "

" My mother had had six children in five and a half years, and three of them died in that time. "

" I'm more interested in writing than in performing. "

" At 66, you're supposed to die or get hemorrhoids. "

" When I read about Joyce, I realised that there was no eight-till-one in his life: it was 24 hours a day for him. "

" I'm a late bloomer. "

" Kids all want to look cool, as if knowledge is a great burden, but they're always looking around. They remember. "

" They tell me I'm on 'Politically Incorrect' with Ollie North. That should be a lot of fun. "

" Scatter my ashes on the Shannon. "

" People come up to me and talk about the alcoholism in their family. "

" If you have a class of 35 children, and they're all smiling, and there's one little bastard, and he's just staring at you as if to say 'Show me', then he's the one you think about going home on the train. "

" Sure, I went through my 'J'accuse' phase. I was so angry for so long, I could hardly have a conversation without getting into an argument. And it was only when I felt I could finally distance myself from my past that I began to write about what happened - not just to me, but to lots of young people. I think my story is a cautionary tale. "

" For some reason, I had a responsibility to my family and the people who lived around me. I felt that I had to convey their dignity - the way they dealt with adversity and poverty - and their good humor. "

" We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely. "

" I think there are two cities in the world - New York and Rome. "

" I learned the significance of my own insignificant life. "

" There's so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd. "

" If I have a cause, it's the cause of the teacher. "

" I've been writing in notebooks for 40 years or so. "

" Everyone has a story to tell. All you have to do is write it. But it's not that easy. "

" First of all there is always that artistic challenge of creating something. Or the particular experience to take slum life in that period and make something out of it in the form of a book. And then I felt some kind of responsibility to my family. "

" They all went into the bar business. Which was a mistake, because they began to sip at the merchandise and it set them back, set us all back. Well, them more than I. "