Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize. – James Joyce
I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume 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 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
Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age. – 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
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. – 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
Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home. – James Joyce
A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. – James Joyce
Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America. – James Joyce
