Education

• Portland State University
• Skyview High School (Vancouver, Washington)

Favorite saying

• ""...for the eye sees not itself/But by reflection, by some other things." -William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar "Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; thus unlamented let me die; steal from the world, and not a stone tell where I lie." -Alexander Pope's Ode to Solitude "WE GIVE HUGZ NOT DяUGZ IN FESTUNG AMERIKA." -Mr. Ralph Emerson "One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place." -Emily Dickinson "True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind. The fool is obstinate, and doubeth not he knoweth all things but his own ignorance." -Akhenaton "There was never a genius without a tincture of madness." -Aristotle "The people who teach us that it is wrong to be skeptical are themselves the reasons that we should be skeptical." -Donald G. Smith "We live at the level of our language. Whatever we can articulate we can imagine or explore. All you have to do to educate a child is leave him alone and teach him to read. The rest is brainwashing." -Ellen Gilcrist "Humanity can be quite cold to those whose eyes see the world differently." -Eric A. Burns "Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic." -Frank Hebert "On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light." -Freya Stark "Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious." -Friedrich Nietzsche "We are immortal until our work on earth is done." -George Whitefield "Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing." -Harper Lee "A belief is not true because it is useful." -Henri Fredric Amiel "The language of friendship is not words, but meanings." -Henry David Thoreau "This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel." -Horace Walpole "No flower of art ever fully blossomed save it was nourished by tears of agony." -Isadora Duncan "One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life." -Jean-Paul Sartre "We are shaped and fashioned by what we love." -Johann von Goethe "So it goes." -Kurt Vonnegut "He who reigns within himself and rules his passion, desires, and fears is more than a king." -John Milton "It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them." -John Steinbeck "It is the habit of mediocre minds to condemn all that is beyond their grasp." -La Rochefoucauld "I never let schooling interfere with my education." -Mark Twain "The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple." -Oscar Wilde "The ancestor of every action is a thought." -Ralph Waldo Emerson "No man is demolished but by himself." -Richard Bently "The purpose of life is to live a life of purpose." -Richard Leider "Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself." -Samuel Butler "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him." -Voltaire "What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god!" - William Shakespeare's Hamlet "Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It is taking place every day." -Albert Camus "This morning when I was listening to Vivaldi's Four Seasons, tears came to my eyes." -Keith Richards "I cry quite often." -Keith Richards "Just close your eyes and pretend it's all a bad dream. That's how I get by." -Capt. Jack Sparrow (Pirates 3) "A dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly, it's the honest ones you want to watch out for." -Capt. Jack Sparrow (Pirates 1) "Sometimes you feel like the world's coming down around your shoulders; you feel like you're at the end of your rope. Tie a knot, honey. Hang on tight!" -Steven Tyler "Oh... you guys know this song?" -Steven Tyler 7/23/10 @ The Oracle Arena, Oakland, CA "Look! I gained weight and for once I'm okay with it." -Steven Tyler 7/23/10 @ The Oracle Arena, Oakland, CA "Strangers passing in the street By chance two separate glances meet And I am you and what I see is me And do I take you by the hand And lead you through the land And help me understand the best I can?" -Echoes by Pink Floyd "Yeah, driving up the hill to the Bowl here was like DEJA VUUUU... didn't this happen 70 years ago?" -Paul McCartney at the Hollywood Bowl 3/30/10 "You're white one will be out in a minute." -Drive-through window lady at McDonalds just outside of Salem, OR "The only thing I know is that I know nothing." -Socrates "This is your pilot speaking. Welcome to flight, uh... one.. from here to there. We'll be travelling at a height of 10 feet, moving up to a height of 12 1/2 feet if we see anything big. Your co-pilot today is a flask of coffee." -Eddie Izzard "Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive. The sternest-seeming stoic is human after all; and to "burst" with boldness and good will into "the silent sea" of their souls is often to confer on them the first of obligations." -Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre"