A text is evolutionary by its very nature.

- Reif Larsen

A novel is a tricky thing to map.

- Reif Larsen

Do you ever get the feeling like you already know the entire contents of the universe somewhere inside of your head, as if you were born with a compl…

- Reif Larsen

I would not know what to say to you, except this: there was never a map that got it all right, and truth and beauty were never married to one another…

- Reif Larsen

A map does not just chart, it unlocks and formulates meaning; it forms bridges between here and there, between disparate ideas that we did not know w…

- Reif Larsen

I suddenly had an idea of how adults can hold on to a feeling for very long periods of time, long after the event is finished, long after cards have …

- Reif Larsen

I was only twelve, but through the slow, inevitable burn of a thousand sunrises and sunsets, a thousand maps traced and retraced, I had already absor…

- Reif Larsen

Outside, there was that predawn kind of clarity, where the momentum of living has not quite captured the day. The air was not filled with conversatio…

- Reif Larsen

One cannot spend one's entire life running into bathrooms when danger calls!

- Reif Larsen