Stephen Marche:

No drug dealer ever worries about demand. Ever. The hunger for illegal drugs in America is assumed to be limitless. Why? One answer is that drugs feed a human despair that is equally limitless. And there is plenty of despair, no doubt. But the question becomes more complicated when you consider how many people are drugging themselves legally.

Harry Mount:

Like Hamlet, the rich yearn for infinite space.

In the end, even infinite space isn't enough.

Nathan Heller:

The future of tech influence is not suburban, as it has been for half a century. It's the city.

Teju Cole:

The city is a sea that can swallow you at any time, a monster that can lash out without warning, a hell of variables and uncertainties. What the solution should be is not clear.

Andrew O'Hagan:

Maybe the small things have gone out of focus. The world is full of things that remain undiscovered until you find them for yourself.

Julia Margaret Cameron:

What is focus and who has the right to say what focus is the legitimate focus?

Pope Francis:

We must not focus on occupying the spaces where power is exercised, but rather on starting long-run historical processes. We must initiate processes rather than occupy spaces.