Various Miscellanea

"Golf is bourgeois and disgusting.  Mini golf is the sport of the proletariat."

-Ian Kochinski

"How old do you have to be before you know what's going on?"

-Bill Watterson

"Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire."

-Abbie Hoffman

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow.  Learn as if you were to live forever."

-Ghandi

"Every true artist is at war with the world."

-Anthony Kiedis

"Start writing, no matter what.  The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on."

-Louis L'Amor

"To do something you feel in your heart that's great, you need to make a lot of mistakes.  Anything that's successful is a series of mistakes."

-Billie Joe Armstrong

"I love deadlines.  I like the wooshing sound they make as they fly by."

-Douglas Adams

"As an artist and a songwriter myself, I like to feel connected to modern culture and watch how sounds change."

-John Feldmann

"An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's."

-J.D. Salinger

"They agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything."

-Joseph Heller

"Of course no one is the Right Person when you meet her; this is just an illusion necessary to lure you into investing the years and making the sacrifices necessary to love someone.  It's like telling yourself your book is going to be a masterpiece and make you rich in order to undertake the laborious ordeal of writing it.  It's only after making all those compromises and forfeitures, and amassing a shared fortune in memories, regrets, in-jokes and secrets, fights and reconciliations, that that person becomes the only possible one for you, unique and irreplaceable."

-Tim Kreider

"Life moves pretty fast.  If you don't stop and look around once in a while you could miss it."

-Ferris Bueller