James Joyce

There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.

A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.

It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant.

I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.

Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.

Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions.

The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.

The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.

A nation is the same people living in the same place.