Just when do men that have different blood in them stop hating one another?

I don't suppose anybody ever deliberately listens to a watch or a clock. You don't have to. You can be oblivious to the sound for a long while, then in a second of ticking it can create in the mind unbroken the long diminishing parade of time you didn't hear.

Don't do what you can do - try what you can't do.

To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.

Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.

Nothing can injure a man's writing if he's a first-rate writer. If a man is not a first-rate writer, there's not anything can help it much. The problem does not apply if he is not first rate because he has already sold his soul for a swimming pool.

You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.