"Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the "
- Patti Smith
"Please, no matter how we advance in technology please don't abandon the book-there is nothing in our material world more beautiful than a book."
"We didn’t have to talk then, and that is real friendship. Never uncomfortable with silence, which, in its welcome form, is yet an extension of conversation."
"And then I walked out, straight through the twilight, treading the beaten earth. There were no dust clouds, no signs of anyone, but I paid no mind. I was my own lucky hand of solitaire. The desert lan..."
"He picks the lock of her dreams with her own hairpin."
"He wrote me a note to say we would create art together and we would make it, with or without the rest of the world."
"I preferred an artist who transformed his time, not mirrored it."
"I had no concept of what life at the Chelsea Hotel would be like when we checked in, but I soon realized it was a tremendous stroke of luck to end up there. We could have had a fair-seized railroad fl..."
"Personally, I'm not much for symbolism. I never get it. Why can't things be just as they are? I never thought to psychoanalyze Seymour Glass or sought to break down "Desolation Row." I just wanted to ..."
"I read and feel that same compulsion; the desire to possess what he has written, which can only be subdued by writing something myself."