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
• "The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off." Gloria Steinem
• "All that I have accomplished has been the result of being left alone." Franz Kafka
• "Our lives are defined by opportunities. Even the ones we miss." Anonymous
• "Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans".  John Lennon

• "What anyone says has nothing to do with you.   It's entirely them.
  Yet your response has nothing to do with them.   It is entirely you."   Ariel Bravy

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

• "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

• "...'cause I know there is strength in the differences between us
  and I know there is comfort where we overlap
  come here
  stand in front of the light
  stand still
  so I can see your sillouette
  I hope
  you have got all night
  'cause I'm not done looking,
  no, I'm not done looking yet."   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

• "I can sum up all I have learned about life in three words : It Goes On."   Robert Frost

• "The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago.   The second best time is now."   African proverb

• "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

• "Sometimes, not often, he sat up and did not move for a long time;
  then he smiled, the slow smile of an executioner watching a victim.
  He thought of his days going by, of the buildings he could have been doing,
  should have been doing and, perhaps, never would be doing again.
  He watched the pain’s unsummoned appearance with a cold,
  detached curiosity; he said to himself: Well, here it is again.
  He waited to see how long it would last. It gave him a strange,
  hard pleasure to watch his fight against it,
  and he could forget that it was his own suffering;
  he could smile in contempt, not realizing that he smiled at his own agony.
  Such moments were rare. But when they came, he felt as he did in the quarry:
  that he had to drill through granite,
  that he had to drive a wedge and blast the thing within him
  which persisted in calling to his pity."
  referring to Howard Roard in The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

• "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

• "It's not what you look at that matters; it's what you see. Henry David Thoreau

• "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

• "There is no believing in God.   We either know God or we do not."
  Khaderbhai,  from the book Shantaram, by Gregory David Roberts

• "A good man is as strong as the right woman needs him to be."
  Karla Saaranen,  from the book Shantaram, by Gregory David Roberts

• "Personality and personal identity are in some ways like co-ordinates on the street map drawn by
  our intersecting relationships. We know who we are and we define what we are by references to the people
  we love and our reasons for loving them."
  Lin,  from the book Shantaram, by Gregory David Roberts

• "There's a kind of luck that's not much more than being in the right
  place at the right time, a kind of inspiration that's not much more than
  doing the right thing in the right way, and both only really happen to you
  when you empty your heart of ambition, purpose, and plan; when you
  give yourself, completely, to the golden, fate-filled moment."
  Gregory David Roberts in the book Shantaram

• "Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope.
  Sometimes we cry with everything except tears.
  In the end, that's all there is: love and its
  duty, sorrow and its truth.   In the end that's all we have -
  to hold on tight until the dawn."
  Gregory David Roberts in the book Shantaram

• "Most of the time, the best we can do is wrap (the past) around ourselves for comfort
  or drag it behind us as we struggle to go on.
  But everything has its cause and its meaning.   Every life, every love,
  every action and feeling and thought has its reason and significance:
  its beginning, and the part it plays in the end.   Sometimes, we do see.
  Sometimes, we see the past so clearly, and read the legend of its parts
  with such acuity, that every stitch in time reveals its purpose, and a kind
  of message is enfolded in it.   Nothing in any life, no matter how well
  or poorly lived, is wiser than failure or clearer than sorrow.   And in the tiny,
  precious wisdom that they give to us, even those dread and hated enemies, suffering and
  failure, have their reason and their right to be."
  Gregory David Roberts in the book Shantaram

• "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

• "Man has great power of speech, but the greater part is empty and deceitful.
  The animals have little, but that little is useful and true;
  and better is a small and certain thing than a great falsehood." Leonardo DaVinci

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

• "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

• "You see things and you say why; but I dream of things
  that never were and I say, why not?."   George Bernard Shaw

• "Cause and effect is as absolute and undeviating in the hidden
  realm of thought as in the world of visible and material things.
  Mind is the master weaver, both of the interior garment of character
  and the outer garment of circumstance."   James Allen

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

• "To be great is to be misunderstood."   Ralph Waldo Emerson

• "A great man is always willing to be little."   Ralph Waldo Emerson

• "All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen."   Ralph Waldo Emerson

• "A man is what he thinks about all day long."   Ralph Waldo Emerson

• "Whatever is the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, & power." Stephen Covey

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

• "There are no secrets in life - just hidden truths that lie beneath the surface."   Dexter

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

• "The irony of commitment is that it's deeply liberating - in work, in play, in love.
  The act frees you from the tyranny of your internal critic, from the fear that likes to
  dress itself up and parade around as rational hesitation.   To commit is to remove
  your head as the barrier to your life."   Anne Morriss

• "We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly."   Sam Keen

• "Don't move the way fear makes you move.
  Move the way love makes you move.
  Move the way joy makes you move."   Osho

• "Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday, was it worth it?"   Anonymous

• "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

• "An eye for an eye makes the whole world go blind."   Mahatma Gandhi

• "Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from indomitable will."   Mahatma Gandhi

• "Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it."   Mahatma Gandhi

• "You must be the change you want to see in the world."   Mahatma Gandhi

• "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

• "In this world, there are only two tragedies.   One is not getting what one wants,
  and the other is getting it."   Oscar Wilde

• "Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half- of people
  clever enough to take indecent advantage of them."   Walter Kerr

• "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

• "We choose our joys and sorrows before we experience them."   Kahlil Gibran

• "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

• "Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add,
  but when there is nothing left to take away."   Antoine de Saint-Exupery

• "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

• "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."   Gandhi

• "I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much."   Mother Theresa

• "An object in possesion seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit."   Gaius Plinius

• "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

• "The price of greatness is responsibility."   Sir Winston Churchill

• "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

• “… It’s a discipline to tell yourself that everything is meaningless.
  I mean, to look at a beautiful sunrise and tell yourself that this is an accident- that you find this to be so inspiring.
  To look at the miracle of the double helix in DNA and tell yourself ‘well nobody really did this, you know?’
  or ‘this is all an accident’.   That is actually a very unhappy life. …
  and I wonder how many people buy this lie – I wonder how many people become convinced this is maturity,
  this is reality- that you have to check your brain at the door (to believe in God).   You don’t."   Anne Rice

• "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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