“To be interested in the changing seasons is . . . a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.”
“(In our city spring came from the sky, not from the soil, which was ruled by stone that recognizes no seasonal change. The change of the season could be glimpsed in the thinning of clouds, the appearance of the birds and the occasional rainbow.)”
“Except. What is normal at any given time? We change just as the seasons change, and each spring brings new growth. So nothing is ever quite the same.”
“You will never be happier than you expect. To change your happiness, change your expectation.”
“Only the Hopeless love God.Because God may love us, but the devil takes an interest.”
“In respect of the recurrent emergence of the theme of sex in the minds of [Joyce's] characters, it must always be remembered that his locale was Celtic and his season spring.”