Believing in everything looks a lot like believing in nothing.

I'm interested in genius the way a hungry man is interested in Philadelphia cheesesteaks. I want something. I want a piece of it.

You look around the world at geniuses, and they don't appear randomly, they appear in genius clusters. Athens in 50 BC, Florence 1500, Silicon Valley today. This is not a coincidence.

..there is more to life than just pleasure. We want to achieve our happiness and not just experience it.

Believing in everything looks a lot like believing in nothing.

I think we should have more coffeehouses, more cafes, more "third places." More places where people can get together that's not work, not home, and where they can interact with people who are different from them.

We can't love a place or a person if we always have one foot out the door.