The other thing Aron found about sensitive people is that sometimes they're highly empathic. It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating them from other people's emotions and from the tragedies and cruelties of the world. They tend to have unusually strong consciences. ... they're acutely aware of the consequences of a lapse in their own behavior.

I get a lot of letters from introverts asking how they can meet people. The key is to make sure that you are doing things you enjoy.

America had shifted from what influential cultural historian Warren Susman called a culture of character to a culture of personality, and opened up a Pandora's box of personal anxieties of which we would never recover.

Introversion - along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness - is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology.

Solve problems, make art, think deeply.

Should we become so proficient at self-presentation that we can dissemble without anyone suspecting?

I'm continually amazed by how many people who appear to be extroverts are actually introverts.