"In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing." Leonard Bernstein

�Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, "Lighthouses" as the poet said "erected in the sea of time." They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.� Arthur Schopenhauer, philosopher (1788-1860)

"The anthropologist is an art historian. Humanity's footprints were left by the creators not by the bureaucrats. In looking at history, we are looking at art. To understand a culture we look at what they created." Ruth Vaughan

“To nourish and raise children against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.” Marilyn French

“Why should it be that whenever men have looked for something solid on which to found their lives, they have chosen not the facts in which the world abounds, but the myths of an immemorial imagination.” Joseph Campbell (1904-1987) American mythological scholar

“Whoever controls the media—the images—controls the culture.” Allen Ginsberg