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

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.

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

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.

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.

Trust is the bridge from yesterday to tomorrow, built with planks of thanks.

It's an up and down thing, the human goals, because the human is always an explorer, an adventurist.

Satisfied if they themselves can escape from the hard labour of thought, they willingly abandon to others the guardianship of their thoughts.

I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.

One knows that frontal and/or profile photography is torn to pieces... Inversely, what remains of the photograph must be seen as a fragment coming to fill a gap in the drawing.

What other significance can our existence have than to be ourselves fully and completely?

The person who has the strong ownership of free speech is the one who owns the press.

I've learned that, as much as you would like to, you can't trust everyone.

It is the object which aroused the artist, stimulated his ideas and set of his emotions. These ideas and emotions will be imprisoned in his work for good.

I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.