Quotes By James Joyce

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

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.

The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.

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.

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

The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.