The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.

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

Only the peak feels so sound and stable that the beginning of the falling is hidden for a little while.

In every writer there is a certain amount of the scavenger.

If you could just ravel out into time. That would be nice. It would be nice if you could just ravel out into time

I discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long enough to exhaust it.

The phenomenon of war is its hermaphroditism: the principles of victory and of defeat inhabit the same body and the necessary opponent, enemy, is merely the bed they self-exhaust each other on.