"My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to me the centre of paralysis."

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

"I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality."

"I am a man who has always been a student of life."

"I have not lost my faith. I have lost my church."