"If I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the heart of all the cities of the world. In the particular is contained the universal."

"I am sorry that I have not been able to write to you more often, but I have been very busy, and I am also very lazy."

"I am quite content to go down to posterity as a scissors-and-paste man."

"I fear that I shall never be able to finish my book. It is too long, too complex, too difficult."

"The only way to escape from the past is to live in the present."