“This luxury of mind began with a RECORD.”
“Books are not luxuries. They are the meat and drink for the mind.”
“National Record Mart began when Hyman Shapiro and his sons Sam and Howard opened their first music store in 1937. A tiny storefront in downtown Pittsburgh, they called it Jitterbug Records and sold used jukebox records for a dime apiece.”
“The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.”
“In poor Rosamond’s mind there was not room enough for luxuries to look small in.”
“You gotta be rich to be insane, Hol. Losing your mind is not a luxury for the middle class.”