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"If science may crudely be said to be the drive to know the world objectively and art is pre-eminently an arena of subjective self-expression, religion typically addresses both sides of the subject-object relationship by connecting what is inside each of us to something outside." --Keith Hart, foreword to Ritual and Religion in the Making of Humanity by Roy A. Rappaport, p. xv

“When I read a novel I am not only surrendering; I am allowing my mind to be occupied by a colonizer of uncertain intent.” Extra Lives by Tom Bissell, p. 39