The difference between being Achilles and almost being Achilles is the difference between living and dying.
The real reason for a quest is always self-knowledge.
Don't wait for writers to be dead to be read; the living ones can use the money.
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.