...though nothing is damaged, everything is changed.
It is devilish difficult to criticise society & also create human beings.
I'm a holy man minus the holiness.
Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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.