James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.

Of all forms of fiction, autobiography is the most gratuitous.

I've got no interest in educating or instructing people.

I should have the courage of my lack of convictions.

Rosencrantz: I don't believe in it anyway. Guildenstern: What? Rosencrantz: England. Guildenstern: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then?

There's something scary about stupidity made coherent.

We've traveled too far, and our momentum has taken over; we move idly towards eternity, without possibility of reprieve or hope of explanation.