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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.

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.

The great man who gives a true transcript of his mind fascinates and instructs. Most writers suppress individuality. They wish to please the public.

Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.

Try imagining James Joyce not writing about being a Catholic.

If you ever want to understand multitasking in prose, James Joyce is your man.

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.

I don't go anywhere without a book by James Joyce called 'Finnegan's Wake.'