just because....

02.24.08 @ 14:10PDT Monday, February 4th

books!

"There are worse crimes than burning books.
One of them is not reading them. "

-- Joseph A. Brodsky, 1991,
Russian-American poet, exiled 1972

02.04.08 @ 04:42PDT Friday, February 1st

Machiavelli

All courses of action are risky, so prudence
is not in avoiding danger, but calculating risk
and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition
and not mistakes of sloth.
Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.

- Niccolo Machiavelli

02.01.08 @ 02:11PDT