I see disaster everywhere; I also […] see generosity and resistance everywhere.

Writing is saying to no one and to everyone the things it is not possible to say to someone.

Thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production - oriented society and doing nothing is hard to do. It's best done by disguising it as doing something and the something closest to doing nothing is walking.

The poet Marianne Moore famously wrote of 'real toads in imaginary gardens,' and the labyrinth offers us the possibility of being real creatures in symbolic space...In such spaces as the labyrinth we cross over [between real and imaginary spaces]; we are really travelling, even if the destination is only symbolic.

A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible spurs to the imagination.

A labyrinth is a symbolic journey . . . but it is a map we can really walk on, blurring the difference between map and world.

The fight for free space-for wilderness and for public space-must be accompanied by a fight for free time to spend wandering in that space. Otherwise the individual imagination will be bulldozed over for the chain-store outlets of consumer appetite, true-crime titillations, and celebrity crises.