PEOPLE

'We are creatures shaped by our experiences; we like what we know, more often than we know what we like.'

Wallace Stegner, 'Thoughts in a Dry Land' in Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs, p.53.

EXPERIENCES

'It was a terrible battle. The most dreadful of all Bilbo's experiences, and the one which at the time he hated most - which is to say that it was the one he was most proud of, and the most fond of recalling long afterwards, although he was quite unimportant in it.'

JRR Tolkien, The Hobbit, p.253.