Favorite Quotes:  

• "It's not what you want- it's how bad you want it, and what you're willing to do to get it." Alexander The Great
• "All that I have accomplished has been the result of being left alone." Franz Kafka
• "Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans".  John Lennon

• "I'm a loner, Dottie - a rebel.   There are things about me you wouldn't understand...you couldn't understand...
  

• "Hug it out, bitch... That is what men say to each other after a fight....
  Not a good idea to say to a woman however, I have found.
  It doesn't translate."   Michael, from The Office

• "Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies." Anonymous
• "Three can keep a secret if two are dead." Anonymous

• "Because I could not stop for Death -
  He kindly stopped for me-"   Emily Dickinson

• "Experience is not what happens to a man; it's what a man does with what happens to him". Aldous Huxley

• "Always have an escape plan."  "Q" from the James Bond movies

• "You've got your whole life to do something - and that's not very long." Ani DiFranco

• "There's not a lot I have to say; I would rather just shut up and do". Ani DiFranco

• "Can you fake it - for just one more show?"   Smashing Pumpkins

• "Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage."   Smashing Pumpkins

• "Whatever I do, it's never enough."   Robert Smith - The Cure

• "What little I've accomplished has been by the most laborious and uphill work." F. Scott Fitzgerald

• "Roark felt the wrench he had tried so often to fight,
  not to let it hurt him too much: the wrench of helplessness before the vision of what he could do,
  what should have been possible and was closed to him."  Ayn Rand -The Fountainhead

• "Learn your way around lonliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life.
  Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body
  or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings."  Elizabeth Gilbert -Eat Pray Love

• "Try to realize it's all within yourself; no one else can make you change,
  and to see you're really only very small, and life flows on within you and without you."   George Harrison

• "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."   Dr. Suess

• "Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of
  life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet".   Albert Einstein

• "If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will avoid a hundred days of sorrow."   Tibetan Proverb

• "Vision without action is a daydream; action without vision is a nightmare."   Japanese Proverb

• "An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools."   Ernest Hemingway

• "Never delay opening a bottle of whiskey, or kissing a pretty girl."   Ernest Hemingway

• "I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone,
  but they've always worked for me."   Hunter S. Thompson

• "At the top of the mountain, we are all snow leopards."   Hunter S. Thompson

• "It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time."   Tallulah Bankhead

• "We see things not as they are, but as we are."  Anais Nin

• "Rivers are damp;
  Acids stain you;
  And drugs cause cramp.
  Guns aren't lawful;
  Nooses give;
  Gas smells awful;
                            You might as well live"   Dorothy Parker

• "Think of all the beauty still left in the world and be happy." Anne Frank

• "Since I have taken the path of art, it is like a kind of LSD trip - with no return. I feel like a tightrope walker;
  I see no difference between work and free time. Suddenly, I became aware that art is a vital activity that keeps me
  from falling into madness." H.R. Giger 1984

• "I want to delight in the smallest of things, a bit of moss 2cm in diameter on a little piece of rock,
  and I want to try here what I have been wishing for so long, namely to copy these tiniest bits of nothing as
  accurately as possible just to realize how great they are."   M.C. Escher

• "We must not take the faults of our youth into our old age, for old age brings with it it's own defects."   Goethe

• "Necessity knows no law."   Publilius Syrus

• "Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible."   Frank Zappa

• "Every problem has a gift for you in it's hands."   Richard Bach

• "Some people think it's holding on that makes one strong; sometimes it's letting go."   Sylvia Robinson

• "A well-spent day brings happy sleep"   Leonardo Da Vinci

• "Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held it's ground."   Anonymous

• "It is never too late to be what you might have been."   George Elliot

• "Don't count the days, make the days count."   Muhammed Ali

• "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power".  Abraham Lincoln

• "The nail that sticks up gets hammered down".  Anonymous

• "Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry
  into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword.
  It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch
  and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry.
  Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so.
  How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar."   Julius Caesar

• "Never doubt that a group of thoughtful commited citizens can change the world.
  Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."   Margaret Mead

• "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that
  we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
  We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
  Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.
  There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
  We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
  It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine,
  we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear,
  our presence automatically liberates others."   Marianne Williamson

• "But you see, I am not a man. I began as one, but by the Grace of God and my own Will,
  I have become Other and More than a man."   Francis Dolarhyde (Red Dragon)

• "The world would be so much nicer if people only used guns on themselves."  Jhonen Vasquez

• "In my life, why do I smile - at people who I'd much rather kick in the eye?"   Morrisey

• "I was delayed, I was way-laid...and the pain was enough to make a shy, bald Buddhist reflect
  and plan a mass murder"   The Smiths

• "...you had no real way of knowing in my heart I begged 'please, take me with you...
  I don't care where you're going...' but to you I was faceless, I was fawning, I was boring..."   The Smiths

• "Good sex is largely a matter of good lighting."   Oscar Wilde

• "The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast."   Oscar Wilde

• "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."   Oscar Wilde

• "Now is blessed; the rest remembered."   Jim Morrison

• "I'm a little sadder for all of it, and a little meaner and a little more
  conscientious as well.   I'm also infinitely more powerful..."   Lestat

• "Don't let yesterday use up too much of today."   Cherokee Proverb

• "I'll try to be nicer, if you try to be smarter."   Neal Boortz

• "What we do in life echoes in eternity."   Maximus

• "The person who makes a success of living is one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly.
  That's dedication."   Cecil B. De Mille

• "To make a prairie it takes a clover and a bee,
  one clover and a bee,
  And reverie.
  The reverie alone will do,
  If bees are few."   Emily Dickinson

• "It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance."   Thomas Sowell

• "You have to know, not fear, that someday you are going to die.
    Until you know that and embrace that, you are useless."   Tyler Durden (Fight Club)

• "Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."  T.S.Elliot

• "Without a struggle, there can be no progress."   Frederick Douglas

• "It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where
  the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena,
  whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short
  again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms,
  the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph
  of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his
  place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."   Teddy Roosevelt

• "Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon;
  where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light;
  and where there is sadness, joy. O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
  to be understood, as to understand; to be loved, as to love; for it is in giving that we receive,
  it is in pardoning that we are pardoned, and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life. Amen."   prayer of St. Francis

• "Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made president should
  on no account be allowed to do the job."   Douglas Adams

• "Your focus determines your reality."   Qui Gon Jinn

• "And now, young Skywalker, you will pay the price for your lack of vision..." Emperor Palpatine

• "Do. Or do not. There is no try."  Yoda

• "Be like water"  Bruce Lee
  

• "It’s important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words
  you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse."   Pi Patel (from the book Life of Pi)

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  Miscellaneous Pictures:

  
  

  Here's a picture of me from Halloween 1998.
  Another picture of me with Flea in Boston (May 1999)

  
  

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  Refresh your memory:
  
  The U.S. Constitution
  
  The Declaration of Independence
  
  

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