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The exciting quality about Joyce is that when you read him, you are not told of the large public issues that were agitating the minds of politicians and journalists on those days. Joyce is interested in the mind of a man who has put five shillings on a horse.

Joyce for all his devotion to his art, terrible in its austerity, was a lad born with a song on one side of him, a dance on the other; two gay guardian angels every human ought to have.

James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can.

I wanted to avoid all that literary stuff. I didn't want the self pity of 'The Portrait,' all the moaning and the whingeing. I'm not knocking Joyce: we all owe him a debt. He's the one who made so much possible.

History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.

James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.

People have always told me a lot that I remind them of Joyce DeWitt.

Try imagining James Joyce not writing about being a Catholic.

The first author I met socially was Joyce Cary.