You behold in me, Stephen said with grim displeasure, a horrible example of free thought.

Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.

Phall if you but will, rise you must: and none so soon either shall the pharce for the nunce come to a setdown secular phoenish.

The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea.

Though people may read more into Ulysses than I ever intended, who is to say that they are wrong: do any of us know what we are creating?Which of us can control our scribblings? They are the script of one's personality like your voice or your walk

I am quite content to go down to posterity as a scissors and paste man for that seems to me a harsh but not unjust description

When the Irishman is found outside of Ireland in another environment, he very often becomes a respected man. The economic and intellectual conditions that prevail in his own country do not permit the development of individuality. No one who has any self-respect stays in Ireland, but flees afar as though from a country that has undergone the visitation of an angered Jove.