"We got where we are because our choices mapped the route and paved the road."
- Craig D. Lounsbrough
"To put a city in a book, to put the world on one sheet of paper -- maps are the most condensed humanized spaces of all...They make the landscape fit indoors, make us masters of sights we can't see and..."
- Robert Harbison
"Each day hands me a clean sheet of paper upon which to write. Therefore, I would be wise to write without ever having the need to erase."
"Arrogance is a map of a road that leads to bridges that are out."
"Intuitions are like migratory birds, they come without a map without a reason."
- Amit Ray
"Maps codify the miracle of existence."
- Nicholas Crane
"The hardest part of being a Canadian kid is having to color in Nunavut with a crayon in school, hell on earth."
- Rebecca McNutt
"There isn’t a parallel of latitude but thinks it would have been the equator if it had had its rights."
- Mark Twain
"...I'm a modern mountebank - I believe in Physiognomy - after all, we are in control of our face - it's the map of where we've been..."
- John Geddes
"A novel is a tricky thing to map."
- Reif Larsen