When I signed a record deal, I was always told by execs I needed to be like everybody else, that I had to show my midriff, things that would take away from who I want to be as an artist.

When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.

In the end one loves one's desire and not what is desired.

...what will we someday do, I always wonder, without the pleasures of turning through books and stumbling on things we never meant to find?

Written By Elizabeth Kostova

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