Some of my favorite books

Jack Kerouac                              On the Road

Ernest Hemingway                     For Whom the Bell Tolls

Harper Lee                                 To Kill a Mockingbird

Jack London                              The Call of the Wild

James Jones                              From Here To Eternity

W. Somerset Maugham             Of Human Bondage

Thomas Hardy                           The Mayor of Casterbridge

Orhan Pamuk                             Snow

Stieg Larsson                              The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series

Susan Viets                                Picnic at the Iron Curtain  http://susanviets.com

Some of my favorite artists

Paul Klee, Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Paterson Ewen (favorite gallery - the MoMA).

Some of my favorite places

Fatehpur Sikri, Old Quebec City, The High Peaks in the Adirondacks, back alleys of Venice, Nob Hill, in San Francisco and the great outdoors in general.