Think back over your life. Have you ever embarked on a quest? Has there been anything in your experience — any goal, any purpose — that commanded an intense effort from you? The wings of your desire might have carried you on a journey to exotic places, in search of strange experiences. Perhaps you quested for new creations: new forms of art, dance, music. Or perhaps you were carried in another direction, into the world of ideas.
— Susan Witting Albert, Writing from Life