My God, what a clumsy olla putrida James Joyce is! Nothing but old fags and cabbage-stumps of quotations from the Bible and the rest, stewed in the juice of deliberate, journalistic dirty-mindedness.

letter to Aldous and Maria Huxley, 15 August 1928, in H. T. Moore (ed.) Collected Letters of D. H. Lawrence (1962) vol. 2