Nick Restifo

“Why do you stay in prison, when the door is so wide open?”
― Rumi

“So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon the plains of Argentina, they had reverted to a style of life that appeared to be natural to them, a sort of ancestral pattern...Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“He was a bully, a bit of a sadist and a showman. But the man knew his vegetables,”
― Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly