James Joyce

Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home…

Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment…

I think a child should be allowed to take his father’s or mother’s name at…

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than…

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art it is the part the schools…

Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and…

Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion…

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in…

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what…

I fear those big words which make us so unhappy…

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts…

Ireland sober is Ireland stiff…