"To arrive at a different peak, sometimes you need to go down."
- Ping Fu

"If you want to be a great writer, you just have to write great."
- George Saunders

There are 13,000 cabs in New York City.

press junkets

"We actors are trained to act not sell."
- Javier Bardem

the most reproduced image of the 18th century

The Death of General Wolfe by Benjamin West

Since World War I, twelve hundred English country houses has been bulldozed.

Room of the Giants

Giulio Romano was the only artist Shakespeare praised by name.

“America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.”
- John Quincy Adams

A day on the moon and a year on the moon are the same thing.

"I learned fairly early on that someone else's success doesn't equal my failure."
- Jack McBrayer

“It's better to be feared than loved if you cannot be both.”
- Niccolò Machiavelli

where Verdi stayed in Milan

http://www.grandhoteletdemilan.it/

"Life squeezes out the best in you; the attrition of living."
- Charlie Rose

"Information is not knowledge."
- Einstein

"It is of no consequence what others think of you; it's what you think of them that matters. That is how you live your life."
- Gore Vidal

Q: What do your paintings mean?

A: Did you ever know what the birds are singing? You don't. But you listen to them anyway. 

choking

"People try to control every aspect of their performance, which is disruptive."
- Sian Beilock

"Practice under pressure makes perfect."
- C.I.A.

“Look, if you really have it, if you’ve had an experience of shunya, of emptiness, and really have penetrated the core of what the Buddhist thought is, you’ll be able to express what that is to a fisherman, to someone who’s uneducated."

- Richard Gere

"Half the world lives on less than $2/day."
- Global Issues

"Even if you have a mediocre therapist, just the fact that you're going is good."
- Adam Carolla

“To me a mountain is a Buddha. Think of the patience; hundreds of thousands of years just sittin there bein perfectly perfectly silent and like praying for all living creatures in that silence and just waitin for us to stop all our frettin and foolin."
- Jack Kerouac

"After a good dinner, one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations."
- Oscar Wilde

"Tell me what you eat and I'll tell you who you are."
- French aphorism

"Didn't see no point going to school for something I was already good at."
- Atlantic Canada Marine Mechanic

"What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Death has not required us to keep a day free."

- Samuel Beckett

"Embrace yourself then go external."
- Jeff Koons

"All the greatest ideas are simple."
- Damien Hirst

Question: Do you practice?

Buddy Guy: I don't recommend it.