The sacred pint alone can unbind the tongue...

History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.

I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.

Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.

Let my country die for me.

Drugs age you after mental excitement. Lethargy then. Why? Reaction. A lifetime in a night. Gradually changes your character.

Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand.

And when all was said and done the lies a fellow told about himself couldn't probably hold a proverbial candle to the wholesale whoppers other fellows coined about him.

What dreams would he have, not seeing. Life a dream for him. Where is the justice being born that way?

He laughed to free his mind from his minds bondage.

I doubt very much that writers ever go to therapy. I wouldn't! I imagine that I wouldn't have anything to write about after!

Maybe it was wrong to take comfort in Hayden’s arms, but she wouldn’t find comfort anywhere else.

Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power a little transient fame A grave to rest in and a fading name!

True strength isn’t in killing—or ignoring—your opponent, it’s in having the will to shield those who need your protection.

Humility is the beginning of true intelligence.

Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.

The philosopher's soul dwells in his head, the poet's soul is in his heart; the singer's soul lingers about his throat, but the soul of the dancer abides in all her body.

One thing that previous practice doesn't always make perfect: Marriage.

The search for an equilibrium is essential for the artist, to be as aware of inner space as he is of outer space.

You've seen my descent, now watch my rising.