Nicholas Smith

“You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

“I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking. Recording the man shaving at the window opposite and the woman in the kimono washing her hair. Some day, all this will have to be developed, carefully printed, fixed.”
― Christopher Isherwood, Goodbye to Berlin

“There were two types of drinkers: those who drank to enhance their personalities, and those who sought to rid themselves of something.”
― Haruki Murakami, Men Without Women