James Joyce

"Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age."

"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."

"Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art it is the part the schools cannot recognize."

"The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts."

"I fear those big words which make us so unhappy."

"Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse."