Wayfarers of Veeshan

"If the afterlife is paradise, does that make life a fate worse than death?"
-Pahkur

"We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails."

"But what is most remarkable, Broadway being three miles long, and the booths lining each side of it, in every booth there was a roast pig, large or small, as the center attraction. Six miles of roast pig! And that in New York city alone; and roast pig in every other city, town, hamlet and village in the Union. What association can there be between roast pig and independence?
Frederick Marryal, describing a Fourth of July celebration (1837)

"It has been said the greatest volume of sheer brainpower in one place occurred when Jefferson dined alone..." John Kennedy