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

He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
James Joyce

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

And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.
James Joyce

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

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
James Joyce

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