When I was in college, I remember fearing that the dreary grind of adulthood would feature infinitely more existential dread than frat parties had, but the opposite has been true for me. I'm much less likely to feel that gnawing fear of aimlessness and nihilism than I used to be and that's partly because education gave me job opportunities, but it's mostly because education gave me perspective and context.

You know, like when you look in the mirror and the thing you see is not the thing as it really is.

And then I screwed up and the Colonel screwed up and Takumi screwed up and she slipped through our fingers.

He'd fought hard, Lida told me, as if there was another way to fight.

Study broadly and without fear.

There's no reason whatsoever to drink eight glasses of water a day unless you, for whatever reason, particularly like the taste of water

Long week. Long month. Long life.