Hugh Leonard

“In Ireland, the inevitable never happens and the unexpected constantly occurs.”

“It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.”

“Childhood is a promise that is never kept.”

“Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.”

“For the first time I was flying, and the air was thin and sharp, and the earth, far away, was a map of all the places I had never been.”