“...how easy it would be to dream one's life out in some cleft in the world.”

“...it was easy to get an incomplete picture of the world if one relied solely on experts, and how important is would be to further rely on oneself”

“Everyone encouraged me to "follow my dreams". No one said it would be hard... but then again, they never said it would be easy either. Just worth it. ”

“It would take a year before the answers to those questions became clear, but much longer to realize that it was too easy to pick up a man's dream, his measure of the world, rather than fashion one of my own.”

“But I still did not realize how mad she was, and how accustomed to dreaming; and that she would not cry out for reality, rather would feed reality to her dreams, a demon elf feeding her spinning wheel with the reeds of the world so she might make her own weblike universe.”

“It's easy to hate and point out everything that is wrong with the world; it is the hardest and most important work in one's life to free oneself from the bonds of fear and attachment.”