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Barbara Walters on the Art of Conversation, How to Talk to Bores, and What Truman Capote Teaches Us About Being Interesting

Barbara Walters on the Art of Conversation, How to Talk to Bores, and What Truman Capote Teaches Us About Being Interesting

“Things being what they are in the world today, we are more and more driven to depend on one another’s sympathy and friendship in order to survive…”

David Bowie’s Enchanting Isolated Vocal Track for “Ziggy Stardust”

David Bowie’s Enchanting Isolated Vocal Track for “Ziggy Stardust”

Because Ziggy didn’t always play guitar.

Ray Bradbury on Failure, Why We Hate Work, and the Importance of Love in Creative Endeavors

Ray Bradbury on Failure, Why We Hate Work, and the Importance of Love in Creative Endeavors

How working for the wrong motives poisons our creativity and warps our ideas of success and failure.

Leonard Cohen on Creativity, Work Ethic, and Why You Should Never Quit Before You Know What It Is You’re Quitting

Leonard Cohen on Creativity, Work Ethic, and Why You Should Never Quit Before You Know What It Is You’re Quitting

“The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.”

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