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

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