 You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith. |
| Well, between Scotch and nothin', I suppose I'd take Scotch. It's the nearest thing to good moonshine I can find. |
| To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow. |
| I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from. |
| I'm inclined to think that a military background wouldn't hurt anyone. |
| 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. |
| To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi. |
| The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. |
| Man will not merely endure; he will prevail. |
| Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief. |
| I believe that man will not merely endure. He will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. |
| Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life. |
| Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency to get the book written. |
| All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible. |
