In one deep sense, novels are concealed autobiography. I don't mean that you are telling facts about yourself, but you are trying to find out what you really think or who you are.
A symbol serves to combine heart and intellect.
The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful.
The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.
You don’t choose a story, it chooses you.
When you get born your father and mother lost something out of themselves, and they are going to bust a ham trying to get it back, and you are it. They know they can't get it all back but they will get as big a chunk out of you as they can.