"People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus."
"There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being."
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Source: Letter to Augusta Gregory on November 22, 1902. James Joyce. Book by Richard Ellmann, 1959.
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