What do you think you're doing?
When I re-read the Odyssey, it felt like I was reading PD James or Minette Walters - you feel that you are sharing in something that hundreds of millions of people have read with love, and I think that this is worth holding onto. It is not a matter of canonical texts or elitism, which the universities are trying to make us wary about. It is about shared language and metaphor and experience and imagery and that is all good.
I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in houses that were, in one case, shaken by the impact of the Mediterranean winter storms on the rocks below.
[Gilda Radner] was in the in vitro fertilization program, and it nearly, nearly drove us apart, too. She wanted that baby, so badly, and it didn't work. Oddly enough, when we were doing "Haunted Honeymoon" in London, she did become pregnant for about 10 days, but then she lost it. But, anyway, my odyssey with Gilda was wonderful, funny, torturous, painful and sad. It was - it went the full gamut.
The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality.
That particular odyssey is now over. My mind is now at rest.
The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side.
The blade itself incites to deeds of violence.
The Iliad is only great because all life is a battle, The Odyssey because all life is a journey, The Book of Job because all life is a riddle.
Poems are language turned into art; sound and sense matter; they can be as long or longer than The Odyssey or as short or shorter than a haiku. Not very helpful.
I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel absurd.
It seems so odd to me, an odyssey How honesty is honestly the rarest thing upon us Its astonishing.
All confessions are Odysseys.
It doesn't seem to me that anyone has discovered much that's new since the Iliad or the Odyssey.
The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a magnificent poem, is not much of a story.
A genuine odyssey is not about piling up experiences. It is a deeply felt, risky, unpredictable tour of the soul.
One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.
In the future, search engines should be as useful as HAL in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey-but hopefully they won't kill people.
Lily white’s petals are at my feet anticipating the moment in which adventure and odyssey meet.
It's been an incredible odyssey to make the journey from a vibrantly healthy person to someone with a chronic illness.
