All Quotes by Nancy Peters
“The tempest unleashes an alphabet and enslaving the masters”
“I'm looking for the binding energy of a look and the spaces between the poles pinned down”
“The stars are dreaming and the rule of invisible birds”
“We have one called Commodity Aesthetics, which is our section on popular culture.”
“The most important of the beat poets. He was a really true poet with an original voice, probably the most lyrical of those poets.”
“The old San Francisco is under attack to the point where it's disappearing”
“Maybe a thousand dollars”
“Then (in 1981) we did a book by Geoffrey Rips called "Unamerican Activities," which was a documentation of the subversion of the underground press. That was when the Freedom of Information Act made those files available. We were shocked, we couldn't believe that our government had been bombing people, infiltrating their organizations. In fact, I think one of the files listed Lawrence as a "beatnik rabble-rouser."”
“During the '70s, when the Cold War was still on, we invited Voznesensky and Yevtushenko to come here. We had very large readings for them. It was a way of kind of culturally thawing the Cold War.”
“The mood of the '50s is like today.”
“It's kind of a world neighborhood bookstore. They fly in from Prague or Tokyo — we had a whole busload of South Africans saying, "They've got my books in here." … The president of the Czech Republic [Václav Havel] came by to pay us a state visit, turned to the shelf, and his book was there: "Look, they've got my book."”
“We're still in a state of shock … We have our "Dump Bush and Cheney" sign in the window, which Lawrence [Ferlinghetti] painted himself. We're looking forward to impeachment or perhaps, indictments for war crimes.”
“He found in the narcotic night world a kind of modern counterpart to the gothic castle — a zone of peril to be symbolically or existentially crossed.”