“Cultural analysis is intrinsically incomplete. And, worse than that, the more deeply it goes the less complete it is.”

“More grass means less forest; more forest less grass. But either-or is a construction more deeply woven into our culture than into nature, where even antagonists depend on one another and the liveliest places are the edges, the in-betweens or both-ands..... Relations are what matter most.”

“He...told me--that which is incomplete, seek completion. Yet...that which is complete, is no better than which is incomplete. Do you understand? Do you know...what that means?”

“We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything, than when we are at play.”

“The stronger a culture, the less it fears the radical fringe. The more paranoid and precarious a culture, the less tolerance it offers.”

“So long as we do not depend on the facts entirely, incomplete knowledge is better than complete ignorance.--Egwene al'Vere”