An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.

Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

Once religion has been dismissed by primarily an intellectual class of people, we lose the really useful social functions of religion... What replaces it might be worse than what we throw away.

Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.

As we grow older I always think, why didn't I do more when I was young, why didn't I risk more?