"What is of great intellectual importance here is the non-separability of experience from being, not the false couplet of theory and experience where the two exist in opposition, with one in subordination or perceived more authentic, depending on your paradigmatic approach. Language as a representative system, and not a transformative practice, attempts to represent the world instead of invent and create it. This fragmenting leads directly to the dissociation of experience from worldview and theory. It is a reductive process in which things are reduced and reduced until there is nothing, not even the memory of existence."
-- Reid Gómez, The Storyteller's Escape: Sovereignty & Worldview, in Reading Native American Women


"The myth, these rituals, are too valuable to be imposed."
-- Margaret Anne Doody, The True Story of the Novel