Home is where the books are

“Once you’ve packed and unpacked as many books [as I have in my move to New York in 1999], then that’s where you live!”

-Salman Rushdie, 2008 (via Space & Culture)

Books, Babies

“Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.”

-Walter Benjamin, #10 of ‘The Critics Technique in Thirteen Theses’,  1926.  (in “One Way Street”. Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings Volume 1 1913-1926.  Cambridge MA: Harvard.  1996.  Pg 460.)