Here we are, a man and a woman, both wanting the same things, and yet, you aren’t attracted to me.
The difference between being Achilles and almost being Achilles is the difference between living and dying.
Everything is a symbol of something, it seems, until proven otherwise.
The real reason for a quest is always self-knowledge.
Never feel dumb. Not knowing who or what is no sin. Ignorance is simply the measure of what you haven't got to yet. I find writers and works every day that I haven't got to, haven't even heard of.
The novels we read allow us to encounter possible persons, visions of ourselves that we would never see, never permit ourselves to become, in places we can never go and might not care to, while assuring that we get to return home again.
Real people are made out of a whole lot of things-flesh, bone, blood, nerves, stuff like that. Literary people are made out of words.
If I am identified with my relationship, with my house, or with my money, I am doomed to suffer.
Oppression does not know the meaning of provincial boundaries. Aren't our energies better spent fighting the common enemy instead of each other?
No matter who you are, we're creatures of habit. The better your habits are, the better they will be in pressure situations.
When you get to practice against the best, it brings the best out of you.