You your best thing, Sethe. You are.
My father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days...
It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.
A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem....
Some days are better than others. The same can be said about people.
There are 2 kinds of fighters: those who fight because they hate, and those who fight because they love.
Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it.
People who are not blessed with the ability to make others laugh compensate for that by saying (or trying to say) things that are profound.
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.