Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.
Ours is a lost generation, it may be, but it is more blameless than those earlier generations.
He is a free and secure citizen of the world because he is on a chain that is long enough to allow him access to all parts of the earth, and yet not so long that he could be swept over the edge of it.
It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.
The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum.
We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.