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

You could do so much for me if you just would. If you just knew. I am I and you are you and I know it and you don't know it and you could do so much for me if you just would and if you just would then I could tell you and then nobody would have to know it except you and me.

Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good.

She is like all the rest of them. Whether they are seventeen or fortyseven, when they finally come to surrender completely, it's going to be in words.

Marriage is long enough to have plenty of room for time behind it.

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.

As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people. But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.