This coffee plunges into the stomach...the mind is aroused, and ideas pour forth like the battalions of the Grand Army on the field of battle.... Memories charge at full gallop...the light cavalry of comparisons deploys itself magnificently; the artillery of logic hurry in with their train of ammunition; flashes of wit pop up like sharp-shooters.

Strategy is buying a bottle of fine wine when you take a lady out for dinner. Tactics is getting her to drink it.

Everything that can be invented has been invented.

Water generally flows downhill in this area.

It was mentioned on CNN that the new prime number discovered recently is four times bigger then the previous record.

The affections are like lightning; You cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.

Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.

Los Angeles seems endlessly held between these extremes: of light and dark - of surface and depth. Of the promise, in brief, of a meaning always hovering on the edge of significance.