James Joyce

Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.

Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.

Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.

They said I couldn't play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York.

I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated.

Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.