The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.
Don't wait for writers to be dead to be read; the living ones can use the money.
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.
One globe seemed all too small for the youthful Alexander.
She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.
There is no pain greater than this; not the cut of a jagged-edged dagger nor the fire of a dragon's breath. Nothing burns in your heart like the emptiness of losing something, someone, before you truly have learned of its value.
Here at the sea---especially at the sea---I could hear my sister’s voice in the waves: “Kira-kira! Kira-kira!