Lou Reed Book Quotations

I mean, there are peripheral things I do, I do photography, I write plays, I have books published, but that's neither here not there.

I wish I had a talking book that told me how to act and look, a talking book that contained keys to past and present memories

They put the thing down your throat so you don't swallow your tongue, and they put electrodes on your head. That's what was recommended in Rockland State Hospital to discourage homosexual feelings. The effect is that you lose your memory and become a vegetable. You can't read a book because you get to page 17 and have to go right back to page one again.