Access All Areas Quotes

“The fact is,’ she stated bluntly, ‘I am no more a human being than a gust of wind is. I have never had a human individual life. I have … lived in the joys, sorrows and worries of other people … it is the non-human world I belong to myself. My people are mangroves, swamps, rivers and the sea and so on–we understand each other.”
― Sara Wheeler, Access All Areas: Selected Writings 1990-2010

“I do think music teaches us the thing we most want to know: that we are not alone. On the other hand–remember I have reserved the right to be inconsistent–surely the only truth is that we are, in the end, alone.”
― Sara Wheeler, Access All Areas: Selected Writings 1990-2010