“Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.”

“Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.”

“There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.”

“We could not be fulfilled if we weren't inauthentic some of the time—inauthentic, that is, in relation to such things as our passing desires to throttle our children, poison our spouse, or end our marriage over a dispute about changing a lightbulb.”

“Just be yourself' is about the worst advice you can give some people.”

“Writing a book has about it some of the anxiety of telling a joke and having to wait several years to know whether or not it was funny.”

“The feeling one has no time to get anything done provides the pressure that guarantees one does get some things done.”