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

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.

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."

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

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

Ghosts and vampires are never only about ghosts and vampires.