Shakespeare is like mashed potatoes, you can never get enough of him. — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
That's what kept us going - a sense of absurdity, rather than humor. — Frank McCourt Absurdity 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
We've had enough of the generals and movie stars. We want to hear about the ordinary people. — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
You feel a sense of urgency, especially at my advanced age, when you're staring into the grave. — Frank McCourt Age Copy Share Image
I think there's something about the Irish experience - that we had to have a sense of humor or die. — Frank McCourt Experience Copy Share Image
Mam was always saying we had a simple diet: tea and bread, bread and tea, a liquid and a solid, a balanced… — Frank McCourt Balanced diet Copy Share Image
I had moments with my father that were exquisite - the stories he told me about Cuchulain, the mythological Irish warrior, are… — Frank McCourt Father Copy Share Image
You don't have to go fight bulls in Spain like Hemingway to write something great, or go off to war. It's right… — Frank McCourt Fight Copy Share Image
I asked my dad what afflicted meant and he said 'Sickness son, and things that don't fit. — 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
I became a teacher all right. I wanted to become a teacher because I had a misconception about it. I didn't know… — Frank McCourt Battle 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 Dad 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
“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
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
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
“You have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. It… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
You never know when you might come home and find Mam sitting by the fire chatting with a woman and a child,… — Frank McCourt Bad night Copy Share Image
He sits in an old armchair in the corner covered with bits of blankets and a bucket behind the chair that stinks… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
I must congratulate myself, in passing, for never having lost the ability to examine my conscience, never having lost the gift of… — Frank McCourt Ability Copy Share Image
If somebody wants me to speak in, say, Chicago, a limousine picks me up at the door to brings me to the… — Frank McCourt 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
“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
Every life is a mystery. There is nobody whose life is normal and boring. — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
The main thing I am interested in is my experience as a teacher. — Frank McCourt Experience Copy Share Image
