“Map age genes place of origin
and love's lineaments.For mapped onto each body is love.Carthography of one's own country
or the contours of a foreign land”

“Understanding how maps work and why maps work (or do not work) as representations in their own right and as prompts to further representations, and what it means for a map to work, are critical issues as we embark on a visual information age.”

“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)”

“A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.”

“Burn all the maps to your body. I'm not here of my own choosing.”

“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.”

“Quintana of Charyn's body was a map of hatred.”

“The terrain is the body, the map is the anatomy chart.”

“The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.”

“They were maps that lived, maps that one could study, frown over, and add to; maps, in short, that really meant something.”