J. P. Donleavy

"I'm suspicious about people interested in saving other people's souls."

"Mr Dangerfield, why don't you believe in hell and things like that?"

"Hell is for poor people."

How small we make our worlds. Gather them in, tighten them up into little castles of fear.

A change of scene is good for a change of mind.

But Jesus, when you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both it's health, you worry about getting rupture or something. If everything is simply jake then you're frightened of death.