"I like coffee exceedingly..."

-- H. P. Lovecraft

“President Bush Sr. and Secretary Baker, way back when, told Gorbachev, "We are not going to advance NATO into Eastern Europe. We're not going to - we're not going to advance NATO into East Germany, if you allow the unification of Germany." Where is that pledge? Where is the logic behind a military alliance, devised in the time of communism, before the Berlin Wall fell, now being in the Ukraine, in Poland, in Estonia, in Latvia and Lithuania? I don't understand.”
“If you ask a stupid question, you may feel stupid; if you don't ask a stupid question, you remain stupid.”

Source : Tony Rothman (1995). “Instant Physics: From Aristotle to Einstein, and Beyond”, Ballantine Books
“Art is a war - between ourselves and the forces of self-sabotage that would stop us from doing our work. The artist is a warrior.”

Source : "10 Questions with Steven Pressfield, Author of The War of Art". Interview with Jeff Goins, goinswriter.com. May 11, 2011.
“Anyone who tries to make a living as a painter knows you can't lounge about waiting for inspiration to hit; nothing motivates like keeping a roof over your head.”
“The quickest way to experiencing the peace inside, is to learn to recognize when I am not at peace.”
“Sometimes God leads us to a place where we have nowhere to turn but to Him; our only option is to trust Him.”
“Never ride your horse more than five-and-thirty miles a day, always taking more care of him than of yourself; which is right and reasonable, seeing as how the horse is the best animal of the two.”

Source : George Henry Borrow (1858). “The Romany Rye: A Sequel to "Lavengro."”, p.296
“I rolled the second car that I ever owned, a Toyota 4 Runner. This was winter in Colorado, two weeks before the 2002 Olympic trials. I was driving in the outside lane, and my rear tire caught some black ice, and we totally turned sideways to the point where we were heading right toward the median.”

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