“Edwin Land of Polaroid talked about the intersection of the humanities and science. I like that intersection. There's something magical about that place.”
- Steve Jobs

"For a writer the centre of the universe is where you are."
- Amos Oz 

process

"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win."
- Amy Goodman paraphrasing Gandi

organic gardener

"Have nothing in it that's not beautiful or useful."
- Prince Charles

"You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life."
- Steve Jobs

mindfulness

"We basically forget 50% of what we have learned in the last 24 hours."
- Attributed to Joshua Foer

"The Blues ain't nothing but a personal catastrophe expressed lyrically."
- Cornel West  

A place to eat in Buffalo

http://www.schwabls.com/

"The Irish have a special talent for suffering ... Anybody who has been in a room full of Irish people knows that the status goes to the person who has had the worst thing happen to them most recently."
- Michael Lewis

John Adams drank a tankard of whiskey daily.

"All creative work is a war against self-conciousness; self-conciousness is the enemy of creativity."
- James L. Brooks