"The wound as an event which brings the knife and the flesh together can be reduced to neither knife nor flesh.” –John Phillips, Agencement/Assemblage

“People make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past.” –Karl Marx, The 18th Brumaire

“…like a face drawn in the sand at the edge of the sea.” – Michel Foucault, The Order of Things

"The photograph belongs to that class of laminated objects whose leaves cannot be separated without destroying them both: the windowpane and the landscape, and why not: Good and Evil, desire and its object: dualities we can conceive but not perceive (I didn't yet know that this stubbornness of the Referent in always being there would produce the essence I was looking for)." -Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida, 1980

"Todos têm o direito de sonhar e cada um o de ser dono de seu sonho." -Fernando Sabino, O Gato Sou Eu

"In my experience, a castaway's worst mistake is to hope too much and do too little. Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one's life away." -Yan Martel, The Life of Pi

"I have traveled much in Concord." -Henry David Thoreau