Ulysses [1922] - James Joyce

"A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery."

"When a young man came up to him in Zurich and said, 'May I kiss the hand that wrote Ulysses?' Joyce replied, somewhat like King Lear, 'No, it did lots of other things too.'" —Richard Ellmann, James Joyce, 1959