~Daniel Defoe from ROBINSON CRUSOE

"I had more care upon my head now than I had in my silent state of life in the island, where I wanted nothing but what I had, and had nothing but what I wanted."

~Jorge Luis Borges from the short story "BRODIE'S REPORT"

"Philosophically speaking, memory is no less marvelous than prophesying the future; tomorrow is closer to us than the crossing of the Red Sea by the Jews, which, nonetheless, we remember."

~Elbert Hubbard

"The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge."

~We Wrote the Book on Connectors album TURBO HORSE

"Grandma's aren't always this sexy, you know."

~Naomi Shihab Nye from WHAT HAVE YOU LOST?

"The things that cause you friction are the things from which you might make art."

~Jorge Luis Borges from the short story THE ZAHIR

". . . there is nothing less material than money, since any coin . . . is, in all truth, a panoply of possible futures. Money is abstract, I said over and over, money is future time."

~Samuel Johnson

“Ignorance, when voluntary, is criminal, and a man may be properly charged with that evil which he neglected or refused to learn how to prevent.”