The motive power of the safety-first movement is a realization of the fact that lives and limbs need not be sacrificed to any desired result… – The Anode by the Bureau of Safety of the Anaconda Copper Mining Co., March 1917
If the choice is between doing something supercool and having no one hear it and doing something equally cool and tricking people into putting it on the radio, I dont think the second option is some big sellout. – Julian Casablancas
The hoary joke in the literary world, based on Dreams From My Father, was that if things had worked out differently for Barack Obama, he could have made it as a writer. – James Fallows
Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life so full of meaningful things that youll hardly have time to think about food. – Peace Pilgrim
