136 Quotes by Adam Gopnik

She always called him Luca, in the Italian manner, and said it with that funny trans-European intonation, the accent oddly placed on the first syllable: ‘Where’s Loo-ka?‘, just like Audrey Hepburn saying, ‘Take the pic-ture,’ in Funny Face.

The romance of your child’s childhood may be the last romance you can give up.

I love you forever’ really means ‘Just trust me for now,’ which is all it ever means, and we just hope to keep renewing the “now,” year after year.

Dinner with water is dinner for prisoners.

I don’t think there’s any question journalists have become targets, but then I think that – that anyone who tries to practice liberty becomes a target of fanatics.

After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn’t be carousels if it weren’t so.

We pursued the muses, instead of the mirrors.

Wit and puns aren’t just decor in the mind; they’re essential signs that the mind knows it’s on, recognizes its own software, can spot the bugs in its own program.

I think I’m more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.