Quotes By James Joyce

Nations have their ego, just like individuals.

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

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

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.

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

Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.

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