The biggest threat to a better life is the desire to keep the future under control - to make the world predictable by reining in creativity and... →
Virginia Postrel
Before it became a ubiquitous part of urban life, Starbucks was, in most American cities, a radically new idea.
By binding image and desire, glamour gives us pleasure, even as it heightens our yearning. It leads us to feel that the life we dream of exists, and... →
Like John Kennedy in 1960, Obama combines youth, vigor, and good looks with the promise of political change. Like Kennedy, he grew up in unusual... →
Loft living is the antithesis of suburban domesticity, if only because the open spaces don't easily accommodate family life. Lofts also offer... →
Many different relationships among patients, doctors, and drugs are possible and desirable. As in so many other areas of life, the Internet... →
I never consciously said, 'I want to be an actor.' It sounds stupid, but it's kind of like being a painter or something. You don't... →
Franka Potente
I've published one book before, and now I'm writing a book of essays and stories about life in Tokyo. And I have one book coming out in May... →
To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending with those beginnings all of my life - that constitutes the... →
Chaim Potok
Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at... →
Ezra Pound