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Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

'Don Quixote' is a very political book that has been used by diplomats, politicians, guerrilla fighters, to inspire people, to convince them that they themselves can become quixotic. George Washington had a copy of the book on his desk when signing the U.S. Constitution.

Read Don Quixote; it is a very good book; I still read it frequently.

I've always been inspired by Don Quixote as a role model of sorts, of the power of books to sort of make you insane in maybe a beautiful way.

As far as I am concerned, Don Quixote is the most metal fictional character that I know. Single handed, he is trying to change the world, regardless of any personal consequences.

Inside every Sancho Panza there's a Don Quixote struggling to get out.

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.'

Not exactly what the world was looking for, a musical on 'Don Quixote.' It was required reading in high school.

Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.