James Joyce

"He do not know what power is at all if he do not know that it is power to say No."

"I heard the exultation of the lark after sunset and could not stay; the blue deepened."

"Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body."

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

"Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives."

"The difficulty in writing about eating is that it is so much nicer to do it than to write about it."

"His mind was a prism."

"All things are inconstant except the faith which no change can impair."

"Mistakes are the portals of discovery."

"I would advise you to read with purpose."

"To be wise you must taste all things in moderation."

"The supreme question about any piece of writing is not how it is done, but whether it is worth doing."

"His humanity is never more than a few degrees above absolute zero."

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

"When you are old and grey and full of sleep and nodding by the fire."

"The movements which work revolutions in the world are born out of deep convictions."

"He was a man of small ventures. His life had taken the form it was to hold for ever."

"I have a deep conviction that we are betrayed by that which happens below our consciousness."

"The real name of every one of the arts is lullaby."

"Mental health they call it. Free the mind."

"I fear those big words which make us so unhappy."

"One great part of every human existence is passed in a state which cannot be rendered sensible by the use of wideawake language."

"I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday. I am the span of my life."

"For myself, I always write about Dublin, because if I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the heart of all the cities of the world."

"The task I have set myself is not a small one."

"Talent is of small importance if you do not back it with hard work."

"Art is the human disposition of intelligible or beautiful matter."

"Better to go back to the beginning and start anew."

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

"He was a man of no great importance, but he had his dignity."