Quotes by James Joyce

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

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"Mistakes are the portals of discovery."

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

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

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

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"A nation is the same people living in the same place."

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"Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment."

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

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"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."

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

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