"I love three things. I love a dream of love I once had, I love you, and I love this patch of earth." "And which do you love best?" "The dream." -Knut Hamsun, Pan

"If the ways of seeing in different communities are in conflict because their interpretative practives reflect incommensurable presuppositions about the human situation, can such communities understand each other? Can one culture use its own terms to say something about another culture without engaging in a hostile act of appropriation or without simply reflecting itself and not engaging the otherness of the Other?...can we ever escape our provincial islands and navigate between worlds? -Paul B Armstrong, "Play and Cultural Differences," Kenyon Review 13 (Winter 1991)

"Until I was about ten years old, I did not know that people died except by violence." -James Kaywaykla, Warm Springs Apache In the Days of Victorio, Eve Ball