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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

James Joyce

Discovery

Errors

Man

A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

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

Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.

Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.

James Joyce

Obvious

You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.

Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.

James Joyce

Ireland

When I die Dublin will be written in my heart.

James Joyce

Heart

Will

My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.

James Joyce

Words

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

James Joyce

Home

There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.

The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you.

James Joyce

Men

Now

The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.

James Joyce

Life

Reading

No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.

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