“All characters and events in this book are made up. If some of them seem familiar, it’s because so many of us grew up playing the same games.”

“Each one of us is made up of many different people. Who we want to be at any one time is up to us, no one else. We don’t always have to play the same part.”

“It's funny how you can know your friends so well, but you still end up playing the same games with them.”

“Who loses hope first? And who never gives up? Because it’s not the supernatural abilities that set mythical characters apart. It’s the decisions the human characters make, in impossible situations, that have us still talking about them centuries later. Heroes are made by the paths they choose, not the powers they are graced with.”

“In times when the grain was harvested by hand, many traditions and superstitions grew up around this important event.”

“Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose.”