New Orts #88

September 21 MMXXV

Eating after a concert is wonderful-- almost makes the playing worthwhile. If a concert has gone poorly, I console myself with a big meal. If it's gone well, I reward myself with a big meal.
— Richard Goode, pianist

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
— Albert Einstein

You want to win this election, you better change the subject. You wanna change the subject, you better have a war. It's show business.
— the political fixer (played by Robert De Niro) in the 1997 movie, Wag the Dog

Human nature itself lies on the operating table, ready for alteration, for eugenic and psychic "enhancement," for wholesale redesign.
— Leon Kass, bioethicist at University of Chicago, in Life, Liberty and the Defense of Dignity (2002)