“Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.” Jim Morrison

 Simple and fresh and fair from winter's close emerging,

As if no artifice of fashion, business, politics, had ever been,
Forth from its sunny nook of shelter'd grass--innocent, golden, calm as the dawn,
The spring's first dandelion shows its trustful face.
-Walt Whitman

"I've noticed that when people are joking they're usually dead serious, and when they're serious, they're usually pretty funny." ~ Jim Morrison

 "Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land." ~ Happy birthday, Walt Whitman

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself. -Jim Morrison

 "So far rich people have been very quiet about the possibility of getting taxes raised on them, but that doesn't mean they won't get mad about it, it just means they don't know about it. Because it takes a while for bad news to reach a rich person. First their accountant has to tell the butler, who has to tell the servant, who wouldn't dare interrupt their game of croquet." ~ Craig Ferguson

"If a man loves the labor of his trade, apart from any questions of success or fame, the gods have called him." ••Robert Lewis Stevenson

 "Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone. Bad food is fake food. Food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people’s ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives."

• Anthony Bourdain