In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color.

Sometimes Joyce is hilarious. I read Finnegans Wake after graduate school and I had the great good fortune of reading it without any help. I don't know if I read it right, but it was hilarious! I laughed constantly! I didn't know what was going on for whole blocks but it didn't matter because I wasn't going to be graded on it. I think the reason why everyone still has so much fun with Shakespeare is because he didn't have any literary critic. He was just doing it; and there were no reviews except for people throwing stuff on stage. He could just do it.

How exquisitely human was the wish for permanent happiness, and how thin human imagination became trying to achieve it.

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

Sweet, she thought. He must think I can't bear to hear him say it. That after all I have told him and after telling me how many feet I have, "goodbye" would break me to pieces. Ain't that sweet. "So long," she murmured from the far side of the trees.

I wish I’d a knowed more people. I would of loved ‘em all. If I’d a knowed more, I would a loved more

Let your face speak what's in your heart.