New York has always been a place where it is possible to have memories without the experience that conventionally precede them.

After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn't be carousels if it weren't so.

The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.

We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.

The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.

The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free, of having escaped.

Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.

What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.

Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.

Wit and puns aren't just décor in the mind; they're essential signs that the mind knows it's on, recognizes its own software, can spot the bugs in its own program.

Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.

The cost of freedom is being strong enough to find the implement your own desires.

There is less in this than meets the eye.

Sunlight is painting.

I always liked running as a kid. You know how eating chocolate or ice cream makes you feel good? That's the same way that running and competing makes me feel.

Everyone should have the same opportunity, and in many areas that's not the case because programs are built around the elite.

I can assure you, if we pull this off, we'll all be celebrating just like we always do.

A woman's pity sometimes makes her mad.

Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.

Make good thy standing place, and move the world.

It's hard to be ambitious if you're content, isn't it?