Frequent and violent temptations were a proof that the citadel of the soul had not fallen and that the devil raged to make it fall.

I think I would know Nora's fart anywhere. I think I could pick hers out in a roomful of farting women.

But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.

I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.

I fear those big words, Stephen said, which make us so unhappy.

His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.

(...) The new nine muses, Commerce, Operatic Music, Amor, Publicity, Manufacture, Liberty of Specch, Plural Voting, Gastronomy, Private Hygiene, Seaside Concert Entertainments, Painless Obstetrics and Astronomy for the People.