A corpse is meat gone bad. Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk.
James Joyce

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

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.
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

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

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

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

I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.
James Joyce


I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.
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

If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European.
James Joyce

Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.
James Joyce

Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.
James Joyce

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

Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.
James Joyce

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

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
James Joyce

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