Oblige me by taking away that knife. I can't look at the point of it. It reminds me of Roman history.

History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.

I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.

Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.

Let my country die for me.

Drugs age you after mental excitement. Lethargy then. Why? Reaction. A lifetime in a night. Gradually changes your character.

Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand.

And when all was said and done the lies a fellow told about himself couldn't probably hold a proverbial candle to the wholesale whoppers other fellows coined about him.

What dreams would he have, not seeing. Life a dream for him. Where is the justice being born that way?

He laughed to free his mind from his minds bondage.

Are you an idiot, or an idiot?' Gargarin hissed.'The first one. I really resent being called the second.

Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and wife gazing and smiling at them.

If you live in each other's pockets long enough, you're related.

When you wake up each morning with a burning passion to accomplish a goal, you've already won the day.

Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not to win it for them.

If you look into the past of the successful painter you will find square miles of canvas behind him.

Don't ask permission, just ask forgiveness.

There were two dawns that morning. One the orderly sunrise of God, followed by man's fireball at the base of that rocket.

God knows, I'm no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be.

Experientially there is only one religion, and it is shamanism and shamanic ecstasy.