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

When the mind grapples with a great and intricate problem, it makes its advances step by step, with but little realization of the gains it has made, until suddenly, with an effect of abrupt illumination, it realizes its victory.

The greatest task of democracy, its ritual and feast - is choice.

It is the system of nationalist individualism that has to go....We are living in the end of the sovereign states....In the great struggle to evoke a Westernized World Socialism, contemporary governments may vanish....Countless people...will hate the new world order....and will die protesting against it.

When she was fifteen if you'd told her that when she was twenty she'd be going to bed with bald-headed men and liking it, she would have thought you very abstract.

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

Sometimes, you have to step outside of the person you've been and remember the person you were meant to be. The person you want to be. The person you are.