"You were once wild here. Don’t let them tame you."
— Isadora Duncan

"The world was hers for the reading."
— Betty Smith (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn)

"Never run from anything immortal. It attracts their attention. "
— Peter S. Beagle (The Last Unicorn)

"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
— Anaïs Nin

"If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!"
— John Waters

"I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman."
— Anaïs Nin