“Come to a book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it, and draw your own map…. A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it.”

“No compass comes with this life, just eyes,
so to map it out you must look inside,
sure books could guide you but your heart defines you, chica”

“Book! You lie there; the fact is, you books must know your places. You'll do to give us the bare words and facts, but we come in to supply the thoughts.”

“If you give the royalties from your book, I shall give the land.”

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

“I have always preferred maps to books. They don't answer you back.”

“❝Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.❞”

“Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.”

“Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.”

“Ask nothing; want nothing in return. Give what you have to give; it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.”