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

James Joyce

No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.

James Joyce

Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.

James Joyce

I’ve put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that’s the only way of insuring one’s immortality.

James Joyce

Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.

James Joyce

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

James Joyce

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

James Joyce