"If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.”
~Frank A. Clark

"I hope I don't barf."
~Regan Blayne while she was trying to pluck the black beard hair from my chin

"You can't teach an old God new tricks."
~Charlie Veprek

"Fortune sides with him who dares."
~Virgil

"Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood."
~Daniel Hudson Burnham

"All my shows are great. Some of them are bad. But they're all great."
~Lord Grade

"I don't know where your mouth's been." ~me
...

"It's just been here inside my face."
~Taylor Rice, in response to why I should let him use my toothbrush

"All is a miracle. The order of nature, the revolution of a hundred million of worlds around a million of suns, the activity of light, the life of animals, all are grand and perpetual miracles."
~Voltaire

"Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change."
~Frank Lloyd Wright

"We are stardust, we are golden, and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden."
~Joni Mitchell

"To the dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illuminated mind the whole world sparkles with light."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It may be more inspiring than Westside Story when it comes to starting your own gang."
~Jeremy Burgan, on The Warriors

"The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion."
~Nadia Boulanger

“Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson (thanks Daniel)

"The whole world is ready to assist your each and every bold move." ~Sara Kaye Larson to me, via text 

"Keep looking at the bandaged place. That's where the light enters you." ~Rumi (thanks Kimberly)

"I mean, you don't throw something away that costs a billion dollars."
~Taylor Rice, on not letting a good thing go

"The great teachings unanimously emphasize that all the peace, wisdom, and joy in the universe are already within us; we don't have to gain, develop, or attain them. We're like a child standing in a beautiful park with his eyes shut tight. We don't need to imagine trees, flowers, deer, birds, and sky; we merely need to open our eyes and realize what is already here, who we really are -- as soon as we quit pretending we're small or unholy." ~Unknown

"I've always wondered if this amp was built on a Monday morning."

~Jeremy Burgan, on his lemon of a bass amp at band practice

~at the Griffith Observatory

"Joy finds us when we feel the elation that comes when we know that we belong--to another, to ourselves, to the world, to the Mystery that is larger than ourselves." ~Oriah Mountain Dreamer

"It's raining hot snowflakes." ~me to Conner, on my life of late

"The good news is I'm getting my feelings back. The bad news is I'm getting my feelings back."

~Regan Blayne to me over the phone

"That Love is all there is,
Is all we know of Love." ~Emily Dickinson

"I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!" ~Louise Bogan

"You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else." ~Hermann Hesse

"History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today." ~Henry Ford

"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it." ~Rumi

"We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world." ~Helen Keller

"A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the 'why' for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any 'how." ~Victor Frankl