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.

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

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

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."

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.

Don't wait for writers to be dead to be read; the living ones can use the money.

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