"The idea of accountability in Vietnam, Nicaragua and now Iraq - the media never has that in its quiver. When you see time after time there is no possibility of Nuremberg [war crime trials], we're doomed to have it repeated."

“No wonder Sherlock Holmes did all that coke. Math is hard.”

“It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living.”

Source : Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

“Everything looks beautiful in Life of Pi.”

Source : "Life of Pi" by Lisa Schwarzbaum, ew.com. November 22, 2012.

“My artistic process involves pens, gesso, acrylic paint, and markers, all on vellum. I use a window painter's technique and paint on the backside of my image before I mess with the front.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

“On my discharge, I had the challenge of putting my life back together but Vietnam stuck in the inner recesses of my mind.”

Source : Source: www.expatarrivals.com

“Mycologists are few and far between. We are under-funded, poorly represented in the context of other sciences - ironic, as the very foundation of our ecosystems are directly dependent upon fungi, which ultimately create the foundation of soils.”

Source : "TEDMED: Can Mushrooms Help the Immune System Fight Cancer? Interview With Paul Stamets, Mycologist". Interview with Dr. Patricia Fitzgerald, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 2, 2011.

“The prospect of a government that treats all its citizens as criminal suspects is more terrifying than any terrorist. And even more frightening is a citizenry that can accept the surrender of its freedoms as the price of "freedom".”

“Anything a man does can bring him closer to the Supreme Wisdom, as long as he works with Love in his heart.”