Happiness is not a noun or a verb. It's a conjunction. Connective tissue.

Genius is not only a what or a who, it is a where. It is grounded in a place every single time.

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's no one on the island telling them they're not good enough, so they just go ahead and sing and paint and write.

A mystery is not a puzzle waiting to be solved, but rather something for which there is no human solution. Mystery's offspring is not frustration but awe, and that sense of awe grows in tandem with knowledge.

Where we are is vital to who we are.

It is a fact of human nature that we derive pleasure from watching others engage in pleasurable acts. This explains the popularity of two enterprises: pornography and cafés.