the ballerina on perfected toe Spins to the axis of a fortitude That is the sum of all her yesterdays. - Djuna Barnes

Dusty books are my one real passion. New books are like young girls — fit for nothing. A secondhand book is like a person who has traveled; it is only when a book has been handled by several persons and has become dirty that it's fit for contemplation.

You beat the liver out of a goose to get a pâté; you pound the muscles of a man's cardia to get a philosopher.

Only the impossible lasts forever; with time, it is made accessible.