“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.”

“Thinking is the hardest work anyone can do, which is probably the reason why we have so few thinkers. ”

“Beckett's probably the hardest man there is to love," Blake said. "He does life wrong for all the right reasons.”

“Teenage girls engage in emotional reasoning, which is the belief that if you feel something is true, it must be true. If a teenager feels like a nerd, she is a nerd....There is a limited ability to sort facts from feelings. Thinking is still magical in the sense that thinking something makes it so.”

“It has been said that the hardest job in the world is raising a child, but the people who says this have probably never worked at a comb factory or captured pirates on the high seas.”

“Pragmatism and subjectivism obscure the reality of the truth. They engage the mind, but they make it the servant of our desires and our work. But they can't answer which desires I should pursue and which work is worthwhile.”