"For Leigh Fermor, literature is not something simply to conjure with, still less something to theorize about; it is both incantatory music and a body of accumulated wisdom, and one can live by its ordinances, or on its wealth of suggestion, much as a minister lives by the Scriptures."

-----Anthony Lane, from the New Yorker. May 22, 2006: "An Englishman Abroad: Patrick Leigh Fermor's journey through the twentieth century."