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

After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it.

It doesn't seem to me that anyone has discovered much that's new since the Iliad or the Odyssey.

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.

All confessions are Odysseys.

Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as having a general historical value, which is the Odyssey.

All societies are historical.

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.

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

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

Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune.

Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything.

When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing.

We have gotten away from this double aspect of either putting the character back into historical events or of making a historical event of his very life.

The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality.

There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions.

It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein.

A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation.

One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.

To have one's own story told by a third party who doesn't know that the character in question is himself the hero of the story being told, that's a technical refinement.

I have got this obsessive compulsive disorder where I have to have everything in a straight line, or everything has to be in pairs.

Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder.

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.

There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served.

If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'

I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom.

Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an intrinsic moral evil, and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder.

For disorder obstructs: besides, it doth disgust life, distract the appetities, and yield no true relish to the senses.

I think sometimes what happens is that all of this feeling out of control manifests itself in trying to control your body; whether it's an eating disorder or talking about getting your nose fixed, as if that's going to be the solution to all the pressure.

Today a racist is synonymous with race hatred. Hating someone is a pretty unpleasant thing and few people are capable of hating others. Long-term hatred is a pathological disorder.

Autism is an extremely variable disorder.

There's a certain amount of disorder that has to be reorganized.

If I like myself at this weight, then this is what I'm going to be. I don't have an eating disorder.

Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

The police are not here to create disorder, they're here to preserve disorder.

It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.

Well, Italy had been overrun by the War, there had practically been civil war, north and south of the Gothic Line, heavy bombing, the northern industrial cities had been bombed heavily and we had political disorder before 1948.

Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.

It is like our foreign policy has attention deficit disorder.

Undermine their pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks. Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible but don't let them take you ALIVE.

Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.

Now equilibrium is the very opposite of disorder.

Order is never observed; it is disorder that attracts attention because it is awkward and intrusive.

It is essential for genetic material to be able to make exact copies of itself; otherwise growth would produce disorder, life could not originate, and favourable forms would not be perpetuated by natural selection.

I've had this problem since I was in my 20s. They don't call it manic depression anymore. They call it a bipolar disorder, and I'm a Type 2.

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

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an intrinsic moral evil, and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder.

I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.