The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.

In America, communities existed before governments. There were many groups of people with a common sense of purpose and a feeling of duty to one another before there were political institutions.

Not so many years ago there was no simpler or more intelligible notion than that of going on a journey. Travel -movement through space -provided the universal metaphor for change. One of the subtle confusions -perhaps one of the secret terrors -of modern life is that we have lost this refuge. No longer do we move through space as we once did.

Modern tourist guides have helped raised tourist expectations. And they have provided the natives- from Kaiser Wilhelm down to the villagers of Chichacestenango - with a detailed and itemized list of what is expected of them and when. These are the up-to-date scripts for actors on the tourists' stage.

The hero was distinguished by his achievement; the celebrity by his name or trademark.

. . . the messiness of experience, that may be what we mean by life.

An enamored amateur need not be a genius to stay out of the ruts he has never been trained in.