“A bridge is a meeting place… a possibility, a metaphor.”

“There is no possibility for two people to stay connected and close if they are in different parallel perceptual realities, no matter if their bodies are in the same place. And it is intimacy and attunement that will bridge the gap between these different parallel realities that make us so utterly alone.”

“He had gone beyond the world of metaphor and simile into the place of things that are, and it was changing him.”

“Mosques provided the only possible meeting places in which the coalition of resistance forces could meet, and they provided a ready platform for the communication of Islamic ideology. With civic space eliminated by the Shah in order to force development upon resistant Iranians, civil society moved into the mosques.”

“Magical places are always beautiful and deserve to be contemplated… Always stay on the bridge between the invisible and the visible.”

“Death is a meeting place of sea and sea.”

“A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas — a place where history comes to life.”

“We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.”

“You should approach each book -- you should approach life -- with the real possibility that you might get a metaphorical boner at any point.”

“Witchcraft offers the model of a religion of poetry, not theology. It presents metaphors, not doctrines, and leaves open the possibility of reconciliation of science and religion, of many ways of knowing.”