Nathalie

“The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself. I suppose that it begins or does not begin in the cradle. Although I have felt compelled to write things down since I was five years old, I doubt that my daughter ever will, for she is a singularly blessed and accepting child, delighted with life exactly as life presents itself to her, unafraid to go to sleep and unafraid to wake up. Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss.”
― Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

“I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon. I cannot understand the love affair.”
― Gore Vidal

“We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don't have books, don't fuck them.”
― John Waters

“Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.”
― John Waters