Best (side) stories

It was a terrible blow to hear that you actually worked. I didn’t think anyone did so anymore. It’s so old-fashioned to work. I’d much rather lounge about the house all day looking fascinating. I’d rather look fascinating than have a permanent income. Am I insane?

— Morrissey, in one of the many letters he wrote to his pre-Smiths pen-pal, Robert Mackie, during the 1980s  (via fernsandmoss)

(Source: nirvikalpa)