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

Whatever sense of professional competence we feel in adult life is less the sum of accomplishment than the absence of impossibility: it's really our ….

Often the block [in writing] comes from the wall of words that keep out the simplicity of sense..

Paris, on the other hand, looked exactly as it was supposed to look. It wore its heart on its sleeve, and the strange thing was that the heart it wor….

We don't know that we've lost half a minute from our lives but we feel it somehow, we feel its absence. Something is missing, we think. And so we lon….

Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship.

... a fact about photography: we can look at people's faces in photographs with an intensity and intimacy that in life we normally only reserve for e….

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

Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser..

Yet in truth the big question Camus asked was never the Anglo-American liberal one: How can we make the world a little bit better tomorrow? It was th….