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 World Series is played in my doubtless too-nostalgic imagination in some kind of autumn afternoon....

There is, I believe now, a force in stories, words in motion, that either drives them forward past things....

Wit and puns aren't just decor in the mind; they're essential signs that the mind knows it's on, recognizes....

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

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.....

Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an....

This is surely the most significant of the elements that Tolkien brought to fantasy.... his arranged....