Sasha

“It is always easier to see in another what we are uncomfortable with in ourselves.”
― Nick Tosches, Me and the Devil

“We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else's mind.”
― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life

“At a press conference in Washington, D.C., in 1957, actress Helen Hayes claimed that her son (later known as James MacArthur, sidekick of Jack Lord in “Hawaii Five-O”) had been well on the path to juvenile delinquency, brought on by rock-and-roll records. She cured him by playing a Beethoven record.”
― Nick Tosches, Country: The Twisted Roots Of Rock 'n' Roll

“Families routinely accepted illegitimate children so common in Italy that a foreign visitor at the time considered them one of the countrys defining characteristics. Nevertheless, bastards were penalized for being born out of wedlock. Leonardo, for instance, would not be able to attend university or to pursue professions such as medicine and law. Nor could he become a notaio like his father and great-grandfather.”
― Dianne Hales, Mona Lisa: A Life Discovered