Stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it. — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
It’s lovely to know that the world can’t interfere with the inside of your head. — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
There's nothing sillier in the world than a teacher telling you don't do it after you already did it. — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
Oh, God above, if heaven has a taste it must be an egg with butter and salt, and after the egg is… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
Your mind is a treasure house that you should stock well and it's the one part of you the world can't interfere… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
You sail into the harbor, and Staten Island is on your left, and then you see the Statue of Liberty. This is… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
I told her tea bags were just a convenience for people with busy lives and she said no one is so busy… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
A lot of people say writers start losing their powers after 60 or 65. But I look at the best-seller list and… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
The master says it's a glorious thing to die for the Faith and Dad says it's a glorious thing to die for… — Frank McCourt 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
The master says it’s a glorious thing to die for the Faith and Dad says it’s a glorious thing to die for… — 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 process for… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
I admire certain priests and nuns who go off on their own and do God's work on their own, who help in the ghettos,… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
When I act tough they listen politely till the spasm passes. They know. — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
Just luxuriate in a certain memory, and the details will come. It's like a magnet attracting steel filings. — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
They all went into the bar business. Which was a mistake, because they began to sip at the merchandise and it set them back,… — Frank McCourt 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 Copy Share Image
We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely. — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
A lot of people say writers start losing their powers after 60 or 65. But I look at the best-seller list and see a… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
“When the dark clouds flutter like bats in my head I wish I could open a window and release them.” — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
Shakespeare is like mashed potatoes, you can never get enough of him. — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
I just have to proceed as usual. No matter what happens, nothing helps with the writing of the next book. — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
