"The signs that mock me as I go."
- James Joyce, Bahnhofstrasse

routine

"I had the words of the sentence yesterday, but I got the order right today."
- James Joyce

Image source here.

"The Atlantic is a bowl of bitter tears."
- James Joyce

portrait of artists

"Art is capturing something essential."

- Kevin Kline [born 1947]

Photograph of Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese by Brigitte Lacombe.

An earlier reference to essence here.

slagged off

"James Joyce was quick to take offense and delighted in testing people's loyalties. Almost all of his male friends failed that test in the end, and he had to discard them. He slagged off left, right and centre all those whom he felt had betrayed him."

- Ian Pindar

from model student to notorious outsider

"The boy with the blotting paper memory."

- James Joyce had an impressive memory according to his early teachers at Clongowes Wood College.

An earlier reference to Joyce here.

he mentioned the everyday unmentionable

“I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.”
- James Joyce's [1882-1941] radical novels broke down the barrier between autobiography and fiction; he wanted them to be read by everyone, but for many, they remain impenetrable.