Civilization is the arteriosclerosis of culture. Henry Miller, The Cosmological Eye A book is a part of life, a manifestation of life, just as much as a tree or a horse or a star. It obeys its own rhythms, its own laws, whether it be a novel, a play, or a diary. Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to us. Words divested of their magic are but dead hieroglyphs.
Pictures tend to trivialize experience.
This is not a book. This is libel, slander, defamation of character. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. What you will. I am going to sing for you, a little off key perhaps, but I will sing.