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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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 quest is always self-knowledge.

Every act of loving affirms the goodness of the lover just because he is capable of loving and being loved.

A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

Our inner guidance comes to us through our feelings and body wisdom first -- not through intellectual understanding.

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

We got the Supreme Court, we pressured the Supreme Court into supporting women's rights to choose.

But as we move from this period of what many Iraqis regard as perceived occupation, we need to move towards one of partnership.

In search of a complete education with the ideals of trust, faith, understanding and compassion, many families are turning to the structure, discipline and academic standards of Catholic schools.

Truth hates delay. (Veritas odit moras.)

In the stutter-flashes of light, the clouds look like huge transparent brains filled with bad thoughts.

The people who come out on top in music business have persistence. It is key! Fall down seven times; stand up eight. It takes a lot of courage and an unwavering belief in yourself and your abilities.