Where is here?

-Frye, Northrop
'Haunted by Lack of Ghosts', in David Staines (ed)  TheCanadian Imagination (1977).

If you don't know where you are, you're nowhere.

-Grosvenor, Gilbert M
On the NGS's establishment of a $20-million foundation to fight ignorance of geography. Quoted in the Washington Post,14  Jan 1988.

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably wantto know iswhere Iwasborn, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind ofcrap, but Idon't feel likegoing into it.

-Salinger,J(erome) D(avid)
The Catcher in the Rye, ch.1.

That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where you are.

-Salinger,J(erome) D(avid)
The Catcher in the Rye, ch.10.