In a dynamic, decentralized system of individual choice and responsibility, people do not have to trust any authority but their own.

Glamour doesn’t just happen, people don’t wake up in the morning glamorous.

Glamour is all about transcending this world and getting to an idealized, perfect place.

The impulse for personal adornment is hard to stamp out.

Glamour is translucent — not transparent, not opaque. It invites us into the world but it doesn’t give us a completely clear picture.

On the Internet, people on the tails of the bell curve can find one another.

The glamour of air travel - its aspirational meaning in the public imagination - disappeared before its luxury did, dissipating as flying gradually became commonplace.

Progress through trial and error depends not only on making trials, but on recognizing errors.

The mobile middle class gravitates to the cities where housing is affordable.

Medicare is immune from the competitive pressures that force private insurers to pay attention to what patients and doctors want.

At the simplest level, only people who know they do not know everything will be curious enough to find things out.

Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.

Everybody is unique and different. Nobody is the same as anyone else. there is no 'normal' - it is a lie taught to us by a system so flawed that it is threatened by the awesome diversity of nature.

The countries that are the least responsible for causing climate change are paying the heaviest price.

It's what you've been a part of for so long. I don't think I can watch a game without an interest in who wins.

Novelists never have to footnote.

Tukhachevsky hid Napoleon's baton in his rucksack.

I have realised that my worst day as an artist is still better than my best day as a lawyer.

When I first got the job, I was told nothing about my character. She's an anthropologist and she's tough, she's a female Indiana Jones. That's what I went into [Lost] knowing.

The only saint is that soul that never weakens, faces everything, and determines to die game.

Always be natural. Putting on airs will make a giggle out of you. Be yourself and if you don't know something say so.