Raymond Queneau

The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side.

It is the creator of fiction's point of view; it is the character who interests him. Sometimes he wants to convince the reader that the story he is telling is as interesting as universal history.

The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.

Everything that I will ever accomplish, I owe to God, to my parent's sacrifices, and to the United States of America.

James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.