“[A]nother thing about myths: they gather in and circumscribe their target audience. They make a collection into a collective.”

“She gathered herself up- rather like collecting her skirts before mountibg a carriage”

“The artist is a collector. Not a hoarder, mind you, there's a difference: Hoarders collect indiscriminately, artists collect selectively. They only collect things that they really love.”

“I love lists. Always have. when I was 14, I wrote down every dirty word I knew on file cards and placed them in alphabetical order. I have a thing about about collections, and a list is a collection with purchase. (Wired Magazine, "Step One: Make a List", October 2012)”

“1.Ghost hunting2.Target practice: rifles and handguns3.Rock collecting 4.Photography-south Carolina wildlife5.Soap making6.Fencing 7.Belly dancing8.Tie dying9.Dog agility course training10.Crawdad racing11.Bull riding 12.Worm collecting”

“Then the hard, dry Spaniards came exploring through, greedy and realistic, and their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels. They gathered mountains and valleys, rivers and whole horizons, the way a man might now gain tittle to building lots.”