The difference between being Achilles and almost being Achilles is the difference between living and dying.
Don't wait for writers to be dead to be read; the living ones can use the money.
Whenever people eat or drink together, it's communion.
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.
Everything is a symbol of something, it seems, until proven otherwise.
When it's over, we may feel wooed, adored, appreciated, or abused, but it will have been an affair to remember.