Mississippi begins in a lobby of a Memphis, Tennessee hotel and extends south to the Gulf of Mexico

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

Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you

The whiskey died away in time and was renewed and died again, but the street ran on. From that night the thousand streets ran as one street, with imperceptible corners and changes of scene.

Everything in Los Angeles is too large, too loud and usually banal in concept… The plastic asshole of the world.

There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, the gamble. In any event it's a thing I need.

Wonder. Go on and wonder.