The single most important thing a city can do is provide a community where interesting, smart people want to live with their families.

It's as if you were interested in fashion and your neighbor when you were growing up happened to be Giorgio Armani.

We prematurely write off people as failures. We are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too dismissive of those who fail.

You can't concentrate on doing anything if you are thinking, “What's gonna happen if it doesn't go right?

A book, I was taught long ago in English class, is a living and breathing document that grows richer with each new reading.

Radio stations have constructed a narrow door[way], and that's because they don't understand how complex and paradoxical our snap judgments are. It's hard to measure new songs.

The goal of storytelling should be to make stories as ubiquitous as music.