“There is no better teacher than experience.”

“If you don’t build your dreams someone else will hire you to help build theirs.”
-Tony Gaskins

“There’s no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.”
-Hermann Hesse

“Destiny is for losers. It’s just a stupid excuse to wait for things to happen instead of making them happen.”
-Blair Waldorf

“If you end up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.”
-Frank Zappa

“Early in our lives we are taught to cover our eyes when we perceive something which is displeasing to us. By looking away we are able to avoid complex and difficult issues, but we fail to develop the means to understand and confront them.”
-Preston Adelbert Cram
~Artist’s statement on “Birthday Bash”
University of Colorado Honors Journal 2011, Pg. 52