One believes in Stephen Dedalus as one believes in few characters in fiction.

We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.

Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.

Our business here is to be Utopian, to make vivid and credible, if we can, first this facet and then that, of an imaginary whole and happy world.

Few people realise the immensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material universe swims.

I don't think you fully appreciate the importance of Illusion in life, the Essential Nature of Lies and Deception of the body politic.

Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough---as most wrong theories are!