The course was more plodding than heroic: I did not strive valiantly against doubters but took incremental steps studded with a few intuitive leaps.

When I was in college, I was debating to try my hand at show business, or to become a professor. I just thought of the risk of not going into show business and always wondering if I would've had a chance. Because that's where my real heart was.

So, I can hurt now, or hurt later.

You can't make something beautiful by trying to make something beautiful. Something becomes beautiful in the process of trying to be something else.

It's not what you know, it's what you think you know.

The Matisse seemed to respond to the decreasing light by increasing its own wattage. Every object in the room was drained of color, but the Matisse stood firm in the de-escalating illumination, its beauty turning functionality inside out, making itself a more practical and useful presence than anything else in sight.

We've taken what was just once a racetrack and made it a multifaceted gaming destination for the entire region.