The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.

art is at least in part a way of collecting information about the universe.

I do not think women understand how repelled a man feels when he sees a woman wholly absorbed in what she is thinking, unless it is about her child, or her husband, or her lover. It ... gives one gooseflesh.

It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work. He would then realize that the human race is in quite a jam about truth.

Marriage had certain commercial advantages. By it the man secures the exclusive right to the woman's body and by it, the woman binds the man to support her during the rest of her life.... A more disgraceful bargain was never struck.

Once a secret society establishes itself within an open society, there is no end to the hideous mistrust it must cause.

Mr. James Joyce is a great man who is entirely without taste.