All advice is autobiographical. It’s one of my theories that when people give you advice, they’re really just talking to themselves in the past.
I like my bacon burnt and my yolk broke.
— Jenika Kurtz, friend
A man’s usefulness depends upon his living up to his ideals insofar as he can.
It is hard to fail but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
All daring and courage all iron endurance of misfortune make for a finer nobler type of manhood.
Only those who are fit to live who do not fear to die, and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life.
— Theodore Roosevelt (inscribed on a wall at the American Museum of Natural History)
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
— Oscar Wilde
What do you do with a BA in English? What is my life going to be? Four years of college and plenty of knowledge have earned me this useless degree. I can’t pay the bills yet, cause I have no skills yet. The world is a big scary place. But somehow I can’t shake, the feeling I might make, a difference to the human race.
— Princeton in Avenue Q
I am a photographer, biologist, idealist, and carnivore. I want to live before I die.
— Han Phan
I’m a New York-based photographer with a particular interest in editorial/documentary work. i strive to make my photographs feel the way the heart remembers them.
— Lisa Weatherbee, photographer
who knew cauliflower came in so many colors? truth: i only ate the broccoli. i think that package was past its due date.
