We are communal histories, communal books, not owned or monogamous in our taste or experience. I believe in such cartography- to be marked by nature, not just to label ourselves on a map like the names of rich men and women on buildings. - Ondaatje

Our symptoms, our monuments. I want to gather them, like somebody’s grandmother putting up preserves, because they will have been so beautiful. I want simply to save them, for what is ceremonious and curious and commonplace will be legendary. - Arbus

I got used to elementary hallucination. I could very precisely see a mosque instead of a factory, a drum corps of angels, horse carts on the highways of the sky, a drawing room at the bottom of a lake. A vaudeville's title filled me with awe. - Rimbaud