“Write for your own time, if not for your own generation exclusively. You can’t write for ‘posterity’ – it doesn’t exist. You can’t write for a departed world.” pp. 24-25
“But James Joyce was protected by the unpopularity of his work. He enjoyed, as his brother Stanislaus observed, ‘that inflexibility firmly rooted in failure.’” p. 71
“The most admirable thing about the fantastic, Andre Breton said, is that the fantastic does not exist: everything is real.” p. 82
“Joyce offered no rejoinder to his brother Stanislaus’s judgment that Finnegans Wake is ‘unspeakably wearisome . . . the witless wandering of literature before its final extinction. I would not read a paragraph of it if I did not know you.’” p. 132
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