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.
The novels we read allow us to encounter possible persons, visions of ourselves that we would never see, never permit ourselves to become, in places we can never go and might not care to, while assuring that we get to return home again.
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.