Ulysses Quotes

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

The head coach don't want no sissies, so he reads to us from something called Ulysses.

Because the great thing about fairy tales and folk tales is that there is no authentic text. It's not like the text of Paradise Lost or James Joyce's Ulysses, and you have to adhere to that exact text.

Each Australian is a Ulysses.

I used to carry a copy of Ulysses with me everywhere just in case I was knocked down by a bus. It seemed more important than having clean underwear.

Happy he who like Ulysses has made a great journey.

Ulysses pissed me off. When Molly Bloom just says, "Yes I said yes I will Yes." And I'm thinking, You should be saying no, Molly. How about no? Saying no is great.

Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey.

Who is more real? Homer or Ulysses? Shakespeare or Hamlet? Burroughs or Tarzan?

Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.