Mary Kay

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

“Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved.”
― Anaïs Nin

“How does one live amongst one’s fellow countrymen and countrywomen when you don’t know which of them is numbered amongst the sixty-million-plus who brought the horror to power, when you can’t tell who should be counted among the ninety-million-plus who shrugged and stayed home, or when your fellow Americans tell you that knowing things is elitist and they hate elites, and all you have ever had is your mind and you were brought up to believe in the loveliness of knowledge, not that knowledge-is-power nonsense, but knowledge is beauty, and then all of that, education, art, music, film, becomes a reason for being loathed…”
― Salman Rushdie, The Golden House

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges