Brain: James Dayton

John Christakos, Maurice Blanks, and Olga Viso.

I think genius is the most overrated word in cultural media today. Leonardo, Michelangelo, Galileo, those guys were geniuses.

S, M, L, XL by Rem Koolhaas et al. and The River Why by David James Duncan.

Baby steps, dude, baby steps.

Generally, I regard Frank Gehry as a mentor. I learned about seeing the world in a new way.

Obama.

I hope I never know.

Fish, hunt, read, paint, golf, hang with my kids and wife.

No. I would take a pill that made me an NHL hockey player, though. Or a scratch golfer.

People smart.

Gregg Allman, Bob Marley, and Lowell George.

The demise of the oil industry, if we don’t find an alternative first.

Wisdom comes with experience, which does not automatically come with age. Wisdom comes from living.