Don't wait for writers to be dead to be read; the living ones can use the money.

The real reason for a quest is always self-knowledge.

A witty and informative professor posits that more authors do not choose titles borrowed from Shakespeare's sonnets and plays for the reason some people claim not to have partners: "All the good ones are taken."

The difference between being Achilles and almost being Achilles is the difference between living and dying.

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.

When it's over, we may feel wooed, adored, appreciated, or abused, but it will have been an affair to remember.

Don't wait for writers to be dead to be read; the living ones can use the money.