That's what kept us going - a sense of absurdity, rather than humor. — Frank McCourt Absurdity Copy Share Image
I am not living the American Dream; I am living the American fantasy. — Frank McCourt American dream Copy Share Image
They can afford to smile because they all have teeth so dazzling if they dropped them in the snow they'd be lost… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
It’s lovely to know that the world can’t interfere with the inside of your head. — Frank McCourt Beautiful Copy Share Image
I didn't have to struggle at all to get an agent and a publisher. Everything fell into my lap. — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
“I'm sitting up in the bed with my knees pulled to my chest and there are tears that won't come to my… — Frank McCourt Tears Copy Share Image
“That's what he disliked about certain artists and writers. They interfered and pointed to everything as if you couldn't see it or… — Frank McCourt Art Copy Share Image
My childhood here... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn. — Frank McCourt Brooklyn Copy Share Image
We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely. — Frank McCourt Christmas Copy Share Image
Way back in my mid-20s, I started making notes. I would just jot things down: lists of street names, songs, peculiar turns… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
“With Angela drawn to the hangdog look and Malachy lonely after three months in jail, there was bound to be a knee-trmbler.… — Frank McCourt Humor Copy Share Image
Just let them sit in the goddam sun. But the world won't let them because there's nothing more dangerous than letting old… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
For some reason, I wrote about the bed we slept in when I was a kid. It was a half-acre of misery,… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
I'm not one of those James Joyce intellectuals who can stand back and look at the whole edifice... It was a slow… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
He came to the States in 1963, I think with a view to making up with my mother, but that didn't work.… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
I'm always a great student of writers' work habits. Balzac sat at his desk dressed in a monk's robe, and he always… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
I had to get rid of any idea of hell or any idea of the afterlife. That's what held me, kept me… — Frank McCourt Afterlife Copy Share Image
I don't absolve my father completely of his responsibility for what he did to us I feel compassion, maybe. He had his… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
There were positive things about the church, that is, in the European cultural sense, the architecture, the liturgy, the music, the art,… — Frank McCourt Architecture Copy Share Image
“Come here till I comb your hair, said Grandma. Look at that mop, it won't lie down. You didn't get that hair… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
“...you, the privileged, the chosen, the pampered, with nothing to do but go to school, hang out, do a little studying, go… — Frank McCourt Around the world Copy Share Image
“Here I am looking at my lovely ten-year-old daughter, Maggie, in her white dress, singing Protestant hymns with the choir at the… — Frank McCourt Children Copy Share Image
“JESUS & THE WEATHER I don't think Jesus Who is Our Lord would have liked the weather in Limerick because it's always… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
“Women stand with their arms folded chatting. They don't sit because all they do is stay at home, take care of the… — Frank McCourt Every morning Copy Share Image
“When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the… — Frank McCourt Childhood Copy Share Image
People everywhere brag and whimper about the woes of their early years, but nothing can compare with the Irish version: the poverty;… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace. — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
“What are they, Dad? Cows, son. What are cows, Dad? Cows are cows, son.” — Frank McCourt Children Copy Share Image
The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice. — Frank McCourt Experience Copy Share Image
You have to give yourself credit, not too much because that would be bragging. — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
“There's nothing worse in the world than to owe and be beholden to anyone.” — Frank McCourt Beholden Copy Share Image
