“It wasn’t until I started reading and found books they wouldn’t let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.”
— John Waters (via rarararambles)
“A man’s library is a sort of harem.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Jack Kerouac: The Dharma Bums
Lancer 71-317 (by uk vintage)
“A Big Novel of Tormented People”…
“You must read dreadful dumb books and glorious books, and let them wrestle in beautiful fights inside your head, vulgar one moment, brilliant the next. You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes…”
— Ray Bradbury
