272 Quotes by Frank McCourt

That's what kept us going - a sense of absurdity, rather than humor.

Scatter my ashes on the Shannon.

Kids all want to look cool, as if knowledge is a great burden, but they're always looking around. They remember.

When I got out of the army, I had the G.I. Bill. Since I had no high school education or anything like that, I came to NYU, and they took a chance on me and let me in.

St. Patrick, bringing the religion to Ireland, this is what we should celebrate.

It's like a series of waves hitting you. First, getting excerpted in the 'New Yorker' last summer, then getting published, then the best-seller list, the award, the movie deal, now this, a Pulitzer.

If I had millions and millions and millions of dollars, I'd leave a large portion to the 42nd Street library. That's why - that was my hangout, the reading rooms, the North and South reading rooms. I'd go there, and my God, I couldn't believe I had access to all of these books. That was my university.

I wanted to avoid all that literary stuff. I didn't want the self pity of 'The Portrait,' all the moaning and the whingeing. I'm not knocking Joyce: we all owe him a debt. He's the one who made so much possible.

They tell me I'm on 'Politically Incorrect' with Ollie North. That should be a lot of fun.