“Every exploration is an appropriation.”

“The world was out there waiting to be explored—and not just waiting, but wanting to be explored. So why in heaven’s name shouldn’t I investigate every nook and cranny?”

“In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.”

“Gide and I have attained such perfect intellectual communion that I experience the appropriate labor pains for every thought he gives birth to!”

“..Acts of appropriation are part of the process by which we make ourselves. Appropriating - taking something for one’s own use - need not be synonymous with exploitation. This is especially true of cultural appropriation. The “use” one makes of what is appropriated is the crucial factor.”

“The greatest happiness for the thinking person is to have explored the explorable and to venerate in equanimity that which cannot be explored.”