However, I was a restaurant critic at Chicago magazine before I worked at Esquire, and I've been a really enthusiastic home cook for a long time. It's just something I'm passionate about.

The real meditation is... the meditation on one's identity. Ah, voil? une chose!! You try it. You try finding out why you're you and not somebody else. And who in the blazes are you anyhow? Ah, voil? une chose!

Ezra Pound

Science doesn't tell us what we should do. It only tells us what is.

Barbara Kingsolver

Mingle some brief folly with your wisdom.

Horace

Now that I think about it, maybe he is a werewolf. I can picture him lunging over the moors in hot pursuit of his prey, and I'm certain that he wouldn't think twice about eating an innocent bystander. I'll watch him closely at the next full moon. He's asked me to go dancing tomorrow--perhaps I should wear a high collar. Oh, that's vampires, isn't it? I think I am a little giddy. (After meeting Mr. Markham V. Reynolds, Jr.)

Mary Ann Shaffer

If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?

Erich Fromm

Music is supposed to wash away the dust of everyday life.

Art Blakey

Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.

CharlesMaurice de Talleyrand

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

Doris Lessing

The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.

Jerzy Kosinski

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Iris Murdoch

Exercise: you don't have time not to.

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Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.

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