The difference between being Achilles and almost being Achilles is the difference between living and dying.
Whenever people eat or drink together, it's communion.
Everything is a symbol of something, it seems, until proven otherwise.
Don't wait for writers to be dead to be read; the living ones can use the money.
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.