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

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

Sometimes he caught himself listening to the sound of his own voice. He thought that in her eyes he would ascent to an angelical stature; and, as he attached the fervent nature of his companion more and more closely to him, he heard the strange impersonal voice which he recognised as his own, insisting on the soul's incurable lonliness. We cannot give ourselves, it said: we are our own

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

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

Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible beacuse there must be sexual intercourse

Mistakes are the portals of discovery

A man's errors are his portals of discovery

I want to work with the top people, because only they have the courage and the confidence and the risk-seeking profile that you need

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