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

And sure enough, even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough.

A writer strives to express a universal truth in the way that rings the most bells in the shortest amount of time.

If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us.

Henry James was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met.

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

Try to be better than yourself.