Quotes on Tricksters

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

No event for the Koyukon - or for most other indigenous peoples - is ever entirely meaningless or accidental, but neither is any event entirely predetermined or fated. Rather like the trickster, Raven, who first gave it its current form, the sensuous world is a spontaneous, playful and dangerous mystery in which we participate, an articulate and improvisational field of powers ever responsive to human actions and spoken words.

Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach.