An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
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 difference between being Achilles and almost being Achilles is the difference between living and dying.
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.
The reason there's so much ignorance is that those who have it are so eager to share it.
I don't think fame changes people. People change as they gather more experiences and information about life.
To honor life, we must be willing to grow through what we don't know yet, and outgrow what we know no longer fits us. We must be willing to give in to the process, moment by moment, realizing a new plot may be unfolding.
Being good enough never is.