“You think dogs will not be in heaven?  I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.”

- Robert Louis Stevenson

“The more I see of man, the more I like dogs.”

- Mme. de Staël

“When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.”

- Joyce Brothers

“The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, ‘Daddy, I need to ask you something,’ he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.” - Garrison Keillor

You’re gonna miss me when I’m gone
I think you miss me already
And I’m gonna miss you too
But after all, that’s only natural

- The Amazing Pilots The Price of Winter

Here’s a candid shot of my good friends, The Amazing Pilots, on our second trip down to Austin together for SXSW in ‘05.

“America was established not to create wealth but to realize a vision, to realize an ideal – to discover and maintain liberty among men.”

- Woodrow Wilson

I wasn’t drinking but you got me drunk
Must’ve lost my head for a while
I wasn’t moving but you got me stuck
You must have spiked your smile
Anyone else would have made an excuse and left early enough
Don’t believe in good fortune but you stole my luck
I wasn’t drinking but you got me drunk

- Iain Archer

“Let us first be as simple and well as Nature ourselves,
dispel the clouds which hang over our brows,
and take up a little life into our pores.”

- Henry David Thoreau

“From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.”

- Franz Kafka