Because they knew each other's thoughts, they even quarrelled without speaking.

As you go along, you literally collect places. I'm fed up with going to places; I shan't go to anymore.

Richard Lee calculated that a Bushman child will be carried a distance of 4,900 miles before he begins to walk on his own. Since, during this rhythmic phase, he will be forever naming the contents of his territory, it is impossible he will not become a poet.

Even today, when an Aboriginal mother notices the first stirrings of speech in her child, she lets it handle the "things" of that particular country: leaves, fruit, insects and so forth. "We give our children guns and computer games," Wendy said. "They gave their children the land."

Music… is a memory bank for finding one’s way about the world.

I learned about Chinese ceramics and African sculptures, I aired my scanty knowledge of the French Impressionists, and I prospered.

I never liked Jules Verne, believing that the real was always more fantastic than the fantastical.