Only someone who already knows and likes you is likely to give you a good job with modest relevant experience.

It's absurd how aspirants to designer-label colleges become obsessed with perfection so they can get into one. I'm not convinced it's worth prostituting yourself for that.

Being a good writer may result in your being nicer to more people, having a bigger positive impact.

If you have an ability, you want to exercise it, not anesthetize it.

You need to create a 30-minute buffer between the end of your work time and sleep time.

Some parents let kids "learn on their own skin" and many of those kids end up, as adults, languishing on their parents' sofas.

Senescence is an inevitability. All we can do is try to strike the balance between graceful acceptance and raging against the dying light.