A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it without cause
Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.
I do not insist," answered Don Quixote, "that this is a full adventure, but it is the beginning of one, for this is the way adventures begin.
For me alone Don Quixote was born and I for him. His was the power of action, mine of writing.
The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.
A wood carving of Quixote on his nag Rocinante graced my childhood home.
Once again I feel beneath my heels the ribs of Rocinante. Once more, I'm on the road with my shield on my arm.
I absolutely had a dream of doing 'Man of La Mancha' one day; that's a long time ago.
Don Quixote — I read that every year, as some do the Bible.
How many different works of art have been inspired by 'Don Quixote?' Thousands. Most people enter the novel, for better or worse, through the musical the 'Man Of La Mancha.'
Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.
I figured if I write a modern thriller but spliced in the DNA of a classic western - the drifter who comes into town with secrets - I could do something interesting with both genres. Westerns are also an incarnation of the classic knight errant tale, the lone warrior with a moral code, and I love those types of stories.
