To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.

Money pads the edges of things.

Suspense: the only literary tool that has any effect upon tyrants and savages.

Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.

A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.

Ulysses ... is a dogged attempt to cover the universe with mud, an inverted Victorianism, an attempt to make crossness and dirt succeed where sweetness and light failed, a simplification of the human character in the interests of Hell.

When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.