James Joyce buried himself in his great work. _Finnegan's Wake_ is his monument and his tombstone. A dead end.
What did Jesus say to the headwaiter at the Last Supper? 'Separate checks, please.'
A world without open country would be universal jail.
The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others.
The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate.