“You might with advantage take out your map of modern literature and mark on it the name of Italo Svevo…for Svevo and his novel, Confessions of Zeno…will henceforth be on other people's maps, and it is well that the atlases of the enlightened should agree.”

“Do not take the agenda that someone else has mapped out for your life.”

“I believe in such cartography – to be marked by nature, not just label ourselves on a map like the names of rich men and women on buildings. We are communal histories, communal books…. All I desired was to walk upon such an earth that had no maps.”

“People don't get it. He didn't even have a fuckin' map; what kind of idiot? THAT was the point. There's no blank spots on the map anymore, anywhere on earth. If you want a blank spot on the map, you gotta leave the map behind.”

“Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map.”

“every man has a map in his heart of his own country and that the heart will never allow you to forget this map. (p. 18)”

““I’ll drive. You navigate.” He grinned. “I judge people by how well they read maps.””

“People who know and love the same books as you, have the road map to your soul.”

“The map is not the territory, and the name is not the thing named (see also, Alfred Korzybski).”

“Confusion exists in the map, not in the territory. Unanswerable questions do not mark places where magic enters the universe. They mark places where your mind runs skew to reality.”