Wonderful things happen when your brain is empty.

Flowers lead to books, which lead to thinking and not thinking and then more flowers and music, music. Then many more flowers and many more books.

Go out and walk. That is the glory of life.

Michael Pollan is a champion. In all ways. A man of great integrity, humor, and common sense and kindness.

On my desk, I always have a lemon or a lime drying. I love the fragrance. Also, a Staedtler eraser, a brush for the eraser and a pencil sharpener.

My short attention span has allowed me a life of diversity in work and place.

It's almost impossible to reconcile the realities of how one feels during the day, hour by hour. But I approach things not cynically.