Collect books, even if you don’t plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.
When they throw the water on the witch, she says, “Who would have thought a good little girl like you could destroy my beautiful wickedness”. That line inspired my life. I sometimes say it to myself before I go to sleep, like a prayer.
If you go home with somebody, and they don’t have books, don’t fuck ’em!
It wasn’t until I started reading and found books they wouldn’t let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.
Being rich is not about how much money you have or how many homes you own it’s the freedom to buy any book you want without looking at the price and wondering if you can afford it.
You have to remember that it is impossible to commit a crime while reading a book.
[W]hat I like best is staying home and reading. Being rich is not about how many homes you own. It’s the freedom to pick up any book you want without looking at the price and wondering whether you can afford it.
I always wanted to be a juvenile delinquent but my parents wouldn’t let me.
I believe that if a seven-year old kid has heard of Naked Lunch and is daring enough to want to read it, he’s old enough to read it.
Catholics have more extreme sex lives because they’re taught that pleasure is bad for you. Who thinks it’s normal to kneel down to a naked man who’s nailed to a cross? It’s like a bad leather bar.
Do we secretly idolize our imagined opposites, yearning to become the role models for others we know we could never be for ourselves?
Keep up with what’s causing chaos in your own field.
I could never kill myself. I approve of suicide if you have horrible health. Otherwise it’s the ultimate hissy fit.
I mean, what is prison, really, except a good bar without the liquor?
Being a traditionalist, I’m a rabid sucker for Christmas. In July, I’m already worried that there are only 146 shopping days left.