Snoop is a tour de force! It’s one of the smartest and most original books I’ve come across in a long time. I devoured it and then rushed over to clean up my desk and change my iPod playlist.

I call the age we are entering the creative age because the key factor propelling us forward is the rise of creativity as the primary mover of our economy.

People don't need to be managed, they need to be unleashed.

Places that succeed in attracting and retaining creative class people prosper; those that fail don't.

Access to talented and creative people is to modern business what access to coal and iron ore was to steel-making.

Human creativity is the ultimate economic resource.

Ideas are the currency of the new economy.

The creative individual is no longer viewed as an iconoclast. He—or she—is the new mainstream.

Beneath the surface, unnoticed by many, an even deeper force was at work—the rise of creativity as a fundamental economic driver, and the rise of a new social class, the Creative Class.

Denser cities are smarter and more productive

Builders need to take their preeminent position back from the traders for the economy of the future to flourish.

When the line between right and wrong slowly dims, all that’s wrong will be divinely delicious, and ruthlessly fought for!

She breathed in the crisp autumn air, hoping the loveliness of nature would somehow cleanse her soul and overshadow her sorrow.

The trains always arrive at your station. The question is which one to take?

The secret of getting things done is to act!

I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.

I seem to be incapable of playing that guy that always does the right thing, who always responds well in any circumstance.

Inhibition is no good provider for a needy man

An ancient father says that a dog we know is better company than a man whose language we do not understand.

I think I'm less anonymous than I was.

At the U.N., any nation that fights back is censored as an "aggressor."