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

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.

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.

A magician may step out without a purse, but he should never step out without a pack of playing cards.

It takes a lot of effort for an obsessive mind to accept the fact that everything is in order except itself.

A man from the wood. A stranger from afar. He will break the curse by a hundred kisses...

Are not half our lives spent in reproaches for foregone actions, of the true nature and consequences of which we were wholly ignorant at the time?

Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.

It is because they have no Oyarsa,' said one of the pupils. It is because everyone of them wants to be a little Oyarsa himself,' said Augray.

I'd kill myself if I was as fat as Marilyn Monroe.

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be.

There are people in Congress who aren't very bright. In fact, some of them are just plain brain-dead.

When you are doing any work, do not think of anything beyond. Do it as worship, as the highest worship, and devote your whole life to it for the time being.