It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.

And Jesus was a Jew too. Your god. He was a Jew like me. And so was his father.

When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flown at it to hold it back from flight.

I am proud to be an emotionalist.

Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.

Ulysses He ... saw the dark tangled curls of his bush floating, floating hair of the stream around the limp father of thousands, a languid flatong flower.

The swift December dusk had come tumbling clownishly after its dull day and, as he stared through the dull square of the window of the schoolroom, he felt his belly crave for its food. He hoped there would be stew for dinner, turnips and carrots and bruised potatoes and fat mutton pieces to be ladled out in thick peppered flourfattened sauce. Stuff it into you, his belly counselled him.