"I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today.
I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day."
"The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts."
"A man's errors are his portals of discovery."
"'History,' Stephen said, 'is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake"
"Think you're escaping and run into yourself.
Longest way round is the shortest way home."
"Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles
but those that were fought and won behind your forehead."
Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored
by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
"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."
"Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the
reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the
uncreated conscience of my race."
There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence:
and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.
"Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers,
eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat,
so busy about many things which perhaps are of no importance,
that it cannot but see something feeble in a civilization which
smiles as it refuses to make the battlefield the test of excellence."
"We are praying now for the repose of his soul.
Hoping you're well and not in hell. Nice change of air.
Out of the frying pan of life into the fire of purgatory."
"Well and what's cheese? Corpse of milk"
~ James Joyce