Probably the most dangerous thing about college education, at least in my own case, is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get lost in abstract arguments inside my head instead of simply paying attention to what's going on right in front of me. TC mark

For me, boviscopophobia is an even stronger motive than semi-agoraphobia for staying on the ship when we're in port.

I have filled 3 Mead notebooks trying to figure out whether it was Them or Just Me.

Mediocrity is contextual.

Almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it.

I felt the sort of soaring, ceilingless tedium that transcends tedium and becomes worry.

Not that that mystical stuff's necessarily true: The only thing that's capital-T true is that you get to decide how you're going to try to see it.