Everything is a symbol of something, it seems, until proven otherwise.
Ghosts and vampires are never only about ghosts and vampires.
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.
Whenever people eat or drink together, it's communion.
The real reason for a quest is always self-knowledge.
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.