"I had gotten to the point where I was either going to play the violin much better ...or I was going to break it over my knee."
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich


"To be nobody but yourself, in a world which is doing it's best, night and day, to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."
e.e.cummings

Ed Byrne
Eddie Murphy
Edgar Allan Poe
Eric Idle
Ernest Hemingway