At 66, you're supposed to die or get hemorrhoids.
From Frank McCourt
I just wrote the book and was amazed and astounded that it became a bestseller and won the Pulitzer Prize. It still hasn't sunk in.
I certainly couldn't have written 'Angela's Ashes' when my mother was alive, because she would have been ashamed.
For some reason, I had a responsibility to my family and the people who lived around me. I felt that I had to convey their dignity - the way they dealt with adversity and poverty - and their good humor.
A funeral was a great form of entertainment. A wake was a great form of entertainment.
Ireland, once you live there, you're seduced by it.
We don't look at teachers as scholars the way they do in Europe. In Spain you're called a professor if you're a high school teacher, and they pay teachers - they pay teachers in Europe.
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.
I would dream of going up to the 'New York Times' and asking them if I could please be a copy boy or let me scrub the toilets or something like that. But I couldn't rise to those heights.
I can do no more than tell the truth.
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