If you want others to follow, learn to be alone with your thoughts.

Hence the vogue for double majors. It isn’t enough anymore to take a bunch of electives in addition to your primary focus, to roam freely across the academic fields, making serendipitous connections and discoveries, the way that American higher education was designed (uniquely, among the world’s systems) to allow you to do.

Posting information is like pornography, a slick, impersonal exhibition.

Life, if you live it right, keeps surprising you, and the thing that keeps surprising you the most…is yourself

People don't mind being in prison as long as no one else is free. But stage a jailbreak, and everybody else freaks out.

If you want others to follow, learn to be alone with your thoughts.

We proceed by doubt, by trial and error, by resisting the impulse to lunge after certainty.