Lee

“So you used to know everything?"
She wrinkled her nose. "Everybody did. I told you. It's nothing special, knowing how things work. And you really do have to give it all up if you want to play."
"To play what?"
"This," she said. She waved at the house and the sky and the impossible full moon and the skeins and the shawls and clusters of bright stars.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“Be boring, knowing everything. You have to give all that stuff up if you're going to muck about here.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.”
― Irwin Shaw

“There is a wilderness we walk alone
However well-companioned”
― Stephen Vincent Benét, Western Star