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."

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.

Whenever people eat or drink together, it's communion.

Everything is a symbol of something, it seems, until proven otherwise.

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."

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

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