Quotes by : Adam Gopnik

Good editorial writing has less to do with winning an argument, since the other side is mostly not listening,....

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....

What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.

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

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

It is the vice of the journalist, I once wrote, to think that history can always be reduced to experience,....

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

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