Quotes by : Adam Gopnik

Ever since, New York has existed for me simultaneously as a map to be learned and a place to aspire too--a....

[A]s military history reveals, a bad plan is often better than no plan, especially if the people on the....

The French believe that all errors are distant, someone else's fault. Americans believe that there is....

Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering....

The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you....

All the media of modern consciousness—from the printing press to radio and the movies—were used just....

We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.

Yet human intelligence has another force, too: the sense of urgency that gives human smarts their drive.....

Big writers become a kind of shared climate.

Oliver, success is usually a feeling of mere relief, where failure is pain. Happiness, you see, lies....