Kathleen

“I often find that a novel, even a well-written and compelling novel, can become a blur to me soon after I've finished reading it. I recollect perfectly the feeling of reading it, the mood I occupied, but I am less sure about the narrative details. It is almost as if the book were, as Wittgenstein said of his propositions, a ladder to be climbed and then discarded after it has served its purpose.”
― Sven Birkerts, The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age

“We're all just walking each other home.”
― Ram Dass

“You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.”
― Bush

“If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!”
― John Waters