I'm attracted to the past.

Words, words. They're all we have to go on.

Player: Relax. Respond. That's what people do. You can't go through life question your sitution at every turn.

If you took away everything in the world that had to be invented, there'd be nothing left except a lot of people getting rained on.

I shall have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love, love, love, above all. Love as there has never been in a play. Unbiddable, ungovernable, like a riot in the heart and nothing to be done, come ruin or rapture.

To say that it is without pace, point, focus, interest, drama, wit or originality is to say simply that it does not happen to be my cup of tea.

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