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genius throw down

"The wind they fart from their asshole."
- Leonardo da Vinci

Italian Alzheimer's

"You forget everything but the grudge."
- Francis Ford Coppola

filing system

“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”

- Albert Einstein

routine

Vincent van Gogh would typically work from 8am to 5pm with paint sourced from Tanguy.

Lyceum

"Patience is bitter, but the fruit is sweet."
- Aristotle

those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

“Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche

affected the intellectual climate

"Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith."

- Reinhold Niebuhr

rite of passage

Primanti Brothers Sandwiches, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

on academia

"In high-school, I failed music."
- Elvis Presley 

therapeutic breakthrough

"I'm not the worst of what I have done."
- Jay-Z

"transcends time, space"

"A loathsome, offensive brut. But I can't look away."
- Ridiculing art curators, patrons

wedding band significance

"Love without end."

on change

"If you're the same person at 50 as you were at 30, you've wasted 20 years."
- Charles Barkley