You can't create a successful politics of support for public education on the basis of asking voters not to care about skills, and tests that measure skills, at all.

In journalism, especially, we tend to deal with large, complex systems by finding especially interesting people and story lines to focus on.

The purpose of every business and organization is to get and keep customers.

If you look at the whole life of the planet, we - you know, Man - has only been around for a few blinks of an eye. So if the infection wipes us all out, that is a return to normality.

The stereotype of a leader is one who talks and peps people up and things like that, but in actuality you have to listen to your teammates.

Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.

Like the watermen who advance forward while they look backward.

Authentic sources. Many authentic sources.

There's nothing in the future and there's nothing in the past. There is only this one moment, and you've got to make it last.

Caress the detail, the divine detail.

I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.

It is all very well to be cautious, but if we are too cautious we will miss our opportunity.