Oaxaca Journal Quotes

“Having ferned for an hour, we take a break for our lunch and I eat, unwisely, quite an enormous meal....”
― Oliver Sacks, Oaxaca Journal

“Here in Mexico, Boone is saying, you have to use your brains to know what’s going on. In the States everything is published, organized, known. Here it is under the surface, the mind is challenged all the while.”
― Oliver Sacks, Oaxaca Journal

“Grasshoppers, by a special biblical dispensation, are kosher, unlike most invertebrates.”
― Oliver Sacks, Oaxaca Journal

“The feelings are similar, in some ways, to those one has in Rome or Athens, but quite different in other ways, because this culture is so different: so completely sun-oriented, sky-oriented, wind- and weather-oriented, as a start. The buildings face outward, life faces outward, whereas in Greece and Rome the focus is inward:”
― Oliver Sacks, Oaxaca Journal

“They saw it as a food of the gods, and believed that the cacao tree originally grew only in Paradise, but was stolen and brought to mankind by their god Quetzalcoatl, who descended from heaven on a beam of the morning star, carrying a cacao tree.”
― Oliver Sacks, Oaxaca Journal