The Unwinding

The things you once thought important or even worth dying for aren’t worth a nickel now.

Edward Hopper),

back to where we were before, but yet we will

“Bandwidth” means the amount of information one can absorb.

floodlit Bojangles’ up the hill from his house, and that meat would be drowned in the bubbling fryers by employees whose hatred of the job would leak into the cooked food, and that food would be served up and eaten by customers who would grow obese and end up in the hospital in Greensboro with diabetes or heart failure, a burden to the public, and

That’s the way nature works. Whether you have the persistence, determination, dedication to see it through—that’s a different story.”

“Our destiny is not written for us, but by us.

Life was richest and most creative where people of different backgrounds could meet face-to-face and exchange ideas. And that happened in cities—cities of a particular kind.

“If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.