The Bedbug: Its Relation to Public Health, Its Habits and Life History, and Methods of Control

“Hope is a most beautiful drug.””

— Unknown

“In a place like Paris, the air is so thick with dreams they clog the streets and take all the good tables at the cafés. Poets and writers, models and designers, painters and sculptors, actors and directors, lovers and escapists, they flock to the City of Lights. That night at Polly's, the table spilled over with the rapture of pilgrims who have found their temple. That night, among new friends and safe at Shakespeare and Company, I felt it too. Hope is a most beautiful drug.””

— Unknown

“In the end, yes, it is a famous bookstore and, yes, it is of no small literary importance. But more than anything, Shakespeare and Company is a refuge, like the church across the river. A place where the owner allows everyone to take what they need and give what they can.””

— Unknown

“There is something more to this story, something that to this day makes me wonder about the line between coincidence and destiny.””

— Unknown

“Give what you can, take what you need’”

— Unknown

“One of the great things about the bookstore ... was that people like him were there”

— Unknown

“You know, that’s what I’ve always wanted this place to be,” he said. “I look across at Notre Dame and I sometimes think the bookstore is an annex of the church. A place for the people who don’t quite fit in over there.””

— Unknown

“George then quizzed me about Marx’s funeral. “How many people do you think were there?” he asked. I guessed a few hundred, but George shook his head glumly. Seven. “I don’t know what it all means.” He sighed. “Nobody has the answers. I don’t like people who pretend they do. Life is just the result of a dance of molecules.””

— Unknown

“As much as we embraced our bohemian life, we were forced to recognize the reality of our predicament: We were all nearly penniless, mostly homeless, and without proper residence papers or health insurance in a foreign country.””

— Unknown