The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

Over the last twenty years, we've changed the world just enough to make it radically different, but not enough to make it work.

If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books.

Testosterone does not have to be toxic.

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

Loss as muse. Loss as character. Loss as life.

All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough.