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

"I want to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city one day suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be reconstructed out of my book."

"He is a man who is not a man, but a brute, a beast, a monster."

"I am a verb, not a noun."

"I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some past day."