When you meet a head of state, and you say, ‘What is your most precious natural resource?’ they will not say children at first, and then when you say, ‘children,’ they will pretty quickly agree with you. Nicholas Negroponte Read Quote
I just think there are certain men who feel like engaging in a story told from a female point of view is somehow a feminizing experience. And that itself is something that they’re almost supposed to not want to engage. Mike White Read Quote
When you have an opportunity to do something again, the money goes up and people get more conservative. Justin Lin Read Quote
For a writer, the Book Festival is interesting because you bump into all these other writers whose work you know, whose names you know, and you have a chance to put a person with the name and the work. Steve Erickson Read Quote
Our phones don’t just keep us in touch with the world; they’re also diaries, confessional booths, repositories for our deepest secrets. Jenna Wortham Read Quote
Using official government resources to help bankroll an explicit political agenda – whether on the right or left – is flat out wrong. Gary Ackerman Read Quote
I am a very radical person – as radical now as I was when I was younger. So my books all have in common my search for understanding of the terrible world we are living in and ways to change it. Henning Mankell Read Quote
