James Joyce Video

I love cats. I love their grace and their elegance. I love their independence and their arrogance, and the way they lie and look at you, summing you up, surely to your detriment, with that unnerving, unwinking, appraising stare.

Nothing is lost yet, nothing broken, and yet the cold blue word is spoken: say goodbye now to the Sun, the days of love and leaves are done.

The poets were not alone in sanctioning myths, for long before the poets the states and the lawmakers had sanctioned them as a useful expedient. They needed to control the people by superstitious fears, and these cannot be aroused without myths and marvels.

No man has a right to fix the boundary of the march of a nation; no man has a right to say to his country, Thus far shalt thou go and no further.

Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.

The right man comes at the right time.

Why dont you write books people can read

When possible make the decisions now, even if action is in the future. A reviewed decision usually is better than one reached at the last moment.

God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.

Either move or be moved.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

I was in hospital once. There was a man in another ward, dying of throat cancer. In the silence, I could hear his screams continually. That's the only kind of form my work has.

Hollywood has always been a cage... a cage to catch our dreams.

Your English style will no doubt put all the other gentlemen to bed. I speak figuratively, of course.

There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.

The foolish man lies awake all night
Thinking of his many problems;
When the morning comes he is worn out
And his trouble is just as it was.

I would think Until I found Something I can never find; – Something Lying On the ground, In the bottom Of my mind.

"Spring and All" from Spring and All (1923)

Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win. Channel your energy. Focus.

I have come back again to where I belong; not an enchanted place, but the walls are strong.

Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally go mad and waste their substance.

All things are in all.

The rose of all the world is not for me. I want for my part Only the little white rose of Scotland That smells sharp and sweet - and breaks the heart.

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.

The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.

We must be willing to get rid of the life we planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

I think it is all a matter of love the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Life is beautiful. Life is sad.

Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy.