“Somehow the past is a safe place to explore our collective cultural neuroses.”

“All of us somehow felt that the next battleground was going to be culture. We all felt somehow that our culture had been stolen from us – by commercial forces, by advertising agencies, by TV broadcasters. It felt like we were no longer singing our songs and telling stories, and generating our culture from the bottom up, but now we were somehow being spoon-fed this commercial culture top down.”

“It's like the Vatican's porn collection," Zeb told her. "Safe in our hands.”

“The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.”

“I collect the most valuable thing in the world—free time. But unlike other priceless things, I don’t need a safe to keep it safe, because I keep all my free time in the past, where nobody can touch it—not even me. My collection grows larger every day.”

“We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.”