And yet for a long time, looking back, I have been unable to shake off the feeling that I have been led—make of that what you will.

So we stood there, not knowing either how to stay or how to go, and felt the weight of that failure.

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

how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.

I believe in God, God. God, I believe in God.

I can stand on my own feet; I don't need any man's mahogany desk to prop me up

Women do have an affinity for evil, for believing that no woman is to be trusted, but that some men are too innocent to protect themselves.

ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crises with shapes and sounds with which to guard himself from truth.

God is foolish at times, but at least He's a gentleman. Dont you know that?" "I always thought of Him as a man," the woman said.

I kept thinking that. I don't know why it is I can't seem to learn that a woman'll do anything.

God is foolish at times, but at least He's a gentleman. Don't you know that?

Just like folks. Put off as long as she could having to be brave, knowing all the time that sooner or later she would have to be brave once so she could keep on calling herself a dog, and knowing beforehand what was going to happen when she done it.