"To arrive at a different peak, sometimes you need to go down."
- Ping Fu

"If you want to be a great writer, you just have to write great."
- George Saunders

There are 13,000 cabs in New York City.

press junkets

"We actors are trained to act not sell."
- Javier Bardem

the most reproduced image of the 18th century

The Death of General Wolfe by Benjamin West

Since World War I, twelve hundred English country houses has been bulldozed.

Room of the Giants

Giulio Romano was the only artist Shakespeare praised by name.

“America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.”
- John Quincy Adams

A day on the moon and a year on the moon are the same thing.

"I learned fairly early on that someone else's success doesn't equal my failure."
- Jack McBrayer

“It's better to be feared than loved if you cannot be both.”
- Niccolò Machiavelli

where Verdi stayed in Milan

http://www.grandhoteletdemilan.it/

"Life squeezes out the best in you; the attrition of living."
- Charlie Rose

"Information is not knowledge."
- Einstein

"It is of no consequence what others think of you; it's what you think of them that matters. That is how you live your life."
- Gore Vidal

Q: What do your paintings mean?

A: Did you ever know what the birds are singing? You don't. But you listen to them anyway.