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.

Don't tell us what to believe, what to fear. Show us belief's wide skirt and the stitch that unravels fear's caul.

Our ancestors are an ever widening circle of hope.

Being good to somebody is just like being mean to somebody. Risky. You don't get nothing for it.

Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.

Language alone protects us from the scariness of things with no names. Language alone is meditation.

The Administration of the United States is such dread I almost feel paralyzed.