Jonathan Franzen Quote

I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.

A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem....

When everyone has a microphone, you can't hear anything. Choose one voice carefully and listen in.

Every challenge, every adversity, contains within it the seeds of opportunity and growth.

He shall rule, whom they look not for that dwell upon the earth, and the fowls shall take their flight away together:

Everything around you that you call life was made up by people, and you can change it.

In presence of the Moon nobody sees stars.

Just because your heart is beating, doesn't mean you're alive.

Those who are crazy enough to think they can change the world usually do.

Even now I remember those pictures, like pictures in a storybook one loved as a child. Radiant meadows, mountains vaporous in the trembling distance; leaves ankle-deep on a gusty autumn road; bonfires...