"Long flights give you more time to reflect, look around, experience your surroundings. I got to know the nooks and crannies on Mir very, very well."

“Poetry is a way of always paying attention to the world for me; a way of letting the world stick to me instead of being anxious or estranged, just being present in the world.”

Source : Source: pamplemoussevt.org

“Fine dining teaches you how to cook many different things, and it gives you the basic fundamentals, but these specialty restaurants, theyre not teaching you the broad foundation you need to become a well-rounded cook.”

Source : "David Chang On American Cuisine, Vanishing Seafood, Cooking At Home & Seasoning Properly". Interview with Colin Sterling, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 7, 2011.

“People have no right to make fools of themselves, unless they have no relations to blush for them.”

“A LAW, by the very meaning of the term, includes supremacy. It is a rule which those to whom it is prescribed are bound to observe. This results from every political association.”

“Sunspots and cosmic rays have a 79 percent correlation with our thermometer record since 1860. Meanwhile the CO2 correlation is a mere 22 percent.”

“I think his karma became to serve in nature and not to serve in the world, while I think my karma is to be in the world.”

“No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.”

“With everything that I design, from a church to a plate to skyscraper to a spoon. I am always thinking about voluptuous volumes and spaces.”