“Of course some of us had some geography in school and had studied maps, but a school map is a terribly uncommunicative thing.”

“Of course, any map of the Place would be shocking to anyone with any understanding of geography. As you can see, this is a map of no earthly geography." -”

“A quick look at the map of Europe suggests that Kafka either had a profound ignorance of geography or a profound grasp of emotional game playing.”

“They were maps that lived, maps that one could study, frown over, and add to; maps, in short, that really meant something.”

“I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.”

“We are leading as thorough a study of 'alienation's positive pole' as of its negative pole. As a consequence of our diagnosis of the poverty of wealth, we are able to establish the world map of the extreme wealth of poverty. These speaking maps of a new topography will be in fact the first realization of 'human geography.' On them we will replace oil-deposits with the contours of layers of untapped pedestrian consciousness.”