TOK vs R.A. Salvatore?

So, I was reading my chemistry textbook like a good little nerd over the Easter break and I was looking over some of the TOK excerpts as well as looking at some things on Theoryofknowledge.net. (excellent little site and facebook group). I was also reading R.A. Salvatore because I forgot my Fifth Buisness and Great Gatsby at school. *dodges stones*

Is it sad that I take more from the works of a writer of fiction than I do from some of the biggest discussions and debates of the modern day? Just an interesting fact I've seemed to discover about myself and a little thing to blog about while it's on my mind. I find I take just as much in from the fiction I read as I do the news I read, see, hear etc. For example, R.A. Salvatore includes little excerpts from the mind of Drizzt Do'Urden before differing parts of his novels. They explain his character and provide delightful insight into human nature and life.

I found some of these quotes from some of my favorite book to be greatly insightful and ponderful. :)

I am dying. Every day, with every breath I draw, I am closer to the end of my life. For we are born with a finite number of breaths, and each one I take edges the sunlight that is my life toward the inevitable dusk.
-Drizzt Do'Urden

No, I would not want to live in a world without dragons, as I would not want to live in a world without magic, for that is a world without mystery, and that is a world without faith. And that, I fear, for any reasoning, conscious being, would be the cruelest trick of all.
-Drizzt Do'Urden

Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.
Galadriel, the Fellowship of the Ring

Such is of the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.
Elrond, Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.
JK Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone

It is our choices, Harry, that make us who we are
Professor Dumbledore, Harry Potter

I`m running because I can, because I must. Because I want to see how far I can go before I have to stop.
Gemma Doyle - A Great and Terrible Beauty

These quotes gave me a new outlook at life. A simple thing from a creative writer, such simple words, to open the eyes of another real mind.
Combined with the daily events in my life and around the world, I do find it a little more than odd that I take so much from these simple words than I do from an hour of my life at times. Maybe it is because these simple quotes are so ... simple? And life is so complex at times?
Who knows.
I'm done for now.