“In the ’80s, there was a certain freedom, and a sense of immortality, that ended with that decade. AIDS cracked the earth. With everyone dying, everything shifted. Our history got cut off. We lost a… Read More
“This thing that we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.” — Mary Pickford Today’s quote o’ the day is from the Toronto-born actor and producer who became one of America’s… Read More
“I’ve always been in the right place and time. Of course, I steered myself there.”— Bob Hope This quote, taken from comedian Bob Hope’s memoir Don’t Shoot, It’s Always Me, speaks to working hard and… Read More
“Magazines all too frequently lead to books and should be regarded as the heavy petting of literature.”— Fran Lebowitz The quote of today comes from Fran Lebowitz’s debut book Metropolitan Life, which established her in… Read More
“Science is a co-operative enterprise, spanning the generations. It’s the passing of a torch from teacher, to student, to teacher. A community of minds reaching back to antiquity and forward to the stars.”— Neil deGrasse… Read More
“You shouldn’t blindly accept a leader’s advice. You’ve got to question leaders on occasion.”— Richard Branson The above, which comes from the Virgin founder’s 2011 book, Business Stripped Bare, speaks to something I think many… Read More
“No one is promised tomorrow. We cherish real flowers more than fake ones because we know they are fleeting.”—Julie Fratantoni Today’s quote comes from “your friendly neighborhood neuroscientist” and the author of a Substack I… Read More
“You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.”— Jeannette Rankin Jeannette Rankin was a political force a century ago. In 1916, she became the first woman to win federal office… Read More
“The guilty think all talk is of themselves.”— “Geoffrey Chaucer” The quote of the day is a well-known proverb from Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, although of course that’s not how he wrote it … modern… Read More
“Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.”— Robertson Davies A note: the cat above was Bellybutton, the much beloved cat Martha and I… Read More
“In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men’s underwear.”— Julia Child A note: Julia Child’s kitchen (not the TV set version, but the real one… Read More
“You can’t put off being young until you retire.”– Philip Larkin