"Milk in your tea? You must not be from around here."

- said to me

"I don't mind a lie... if it's interesting."

- from Rashomon

Here we are in your dream.

You have the basic skills but your eyes give you away. Become unpredictable, strike from your subconscious mind. Let your moves flow out from your individual essence. Even the most masterful opponent will fall from a strike that has no history or reference. The moves created from your own unique individual essence may surprise even you.

- from Afro Samurai

Not too sure why the men's bathroom in my office smelled like gin & tonic today. Could it be the air freshener? Or someone trying to relieve some stress?

"Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time."

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

If you wish to have beautiful eyes you must gaze upon beautiful things.

My best creative thinking occurs when I'm in the bathroom, not when I'm at my desk.

"To this moment, and the moment yet to come."

- James Bond, Man with the Golden Gun

Will you train harder than your opponents will today?

Should I accept that it might be impossible and endure the consequences that I set myself up for? Even if my spirit is indomitable... there may be limits to what is possible.

Moved by the symbolism of being woken up by a crying baby on the first day of the infant year.

"If I were you I'd wear as little as possible."

- A.B. to me

If you play with fire you get used to it.

I've been told that I've had the weakest nightmare ever.

"There are no evildoers among ramen-lovers."

- Naruto Uzumaki

Stand like a mountain, flow like water

- Tai Chi saying

"...because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn..."

- Jack Kerouac

"The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history."
- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey
- Also Curt Wild, Velvet Goldmine

Decadent. But people like this capture us and lift us up off the ground.

One of the funniest things I've seen from a fortune cookie: "Help! I'm being held captive in a fortune cookie factory."