That's why we feel so disoriented, irritated even, when these touchstones from our past are altered. We don't like it when our hometown changes, even in small ways. It's unsettling. The playground! It used to be right here, I swear. Mess with our hometown, and you're messing with our past, with who we are. Nobody likes that.

When you're stuck on something creatively, you can't solve a problem, you go to a coffee shop.

Where we are is vital to who we are.

That's why we feel so disoriented, irritated even, when these touchstones from our past are altered. We don't like it when our hometown changes, even in small ways. It's unsettling. The playground! It used to be right here, I swear. Mess with our hometown, and you're messing with our past, with who we are. Nobody likes that.

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

We help other people because we can, or because it makes us feel good, not because we're counting on some future payback. There is a word for this; love.

Compromise is a skill, and like all skills it atrophies from lack of use.