The most exciting breakthroughs often come from unexpected places.

So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

The sun is new each day.

"The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding."