The dinosaurs's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good, an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better.
Never before, I suspect, have so many people been so rich to so little purpose.
Procrastination most often arises from a sense that there is too much to do, and hence no single aspect of the to-do worth doing. . . . Underneath this rather antic form of action-as-inaction is the much more unsettling question whether anything is worth doing at all.
Our desires are never wholly transparent, even to ourselves.
If anyone is tweeting right now, I'm not pulling a knife on David Cronenberg!
How doe we create the world we want, rather than a world that just happens to us?
If you have ever been accused of being rude when you were merely stating the truth, or called a gossip because you like to dwell on other people's actions, Westacott is for you. His linked studies of everyday vices offer elegant analysis of the goods that lurk in behavior that is usually condemned. This wise book is practical philosophy in the best sense.
I think there's some kids that need to go from being a child to being a grown-up. You get out in the tech communities, the parents just apprentice their kid into the industry and they just skip being a teenager.
I like the unknown. I like mystery.
And you don't want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.
The writing process was some of the most exciting and rewarding moments of my life. It felt a lot like being in a band.