“He must put aside his pride, his virtue, beauty and life and bow or submit to the absolutely intolerable.”

― Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces

“Should we be mindful of dreams?" Joseph asked. "Can we interpret them?" The Master looked into his eyes and said tersely: "We should be mindful of everything, for we can interpret everything.”

― Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game

“He had no longer any need for home, for he carried his Gormenghast within him. All that he sought was jostling within himself. He had grown up. What a boy had set out to seek a man had found, found by the act of living.”

― Mervyn Peake, The Gormenghast Novels

“I am that is, my sword shall wield for me.”

― Brian Jacques, Redwall

“Nobody steals books but your friends.”

― Roger Zelazny, The Guns of Avalon