“I cant help but notice that you keep writing love poetry to my wife. Well, you see, I married her, which makes her my wife. You know what you might want to try? Writing some poems about the sunset....”

“Reading Encyclopaedia Britannica is like channel surfing on a very highbrow cable system.”

“One of my biggest challenges is figuring out how to shoehorn my newfound knowledge into conversations.”

“My growing collection of facts keeps overlapping with my life.”

“The author jokes that the culture at his first job at Entertainment Weekly chased away the worthwhile aspects of his Brown education, but in so doing he makes a subtle point about the profound impa...”

“I can’t help but notice that you keep writing love poetry to my wife. Well, you see, I married her, which makes her my wife. You know what you might want to try? Writing some poems about the sunset...”

“All she captures is a moment and what she calls it is a memory,Sometimes, it is assumptions that we use; all we need is a theory,Because you dont know what is there in the future,And all you need i...”

“If others tell us something we make assumptions, and if they don't tell us something we make assumptions to fulfill our need to know and to replace the need to communicate. Even if we hear somethin...”

“You can'tassume i'min bad shapejust becausei've run out ofthe energy toimpressyou.”

“There is nothing innate, immutable or inevitable about boys or girls doing particularly well or badly in different subjects. Girls in Shanghai outperform western boys in math, the same boys that ou...”

“We all have inherent biases. All of us. The problem occurs when police officers or community members allow those biases to affect the choices they make as they do their job or have interactions wit...”

“This is not a Black problem. It is not a white problem. It is not a police problem. It is a WE problem. We the people, for the people. It is going to take all of us being transparent in order to tr...”

“Insight is the deep intuitive understanding of things, and it often breaks through the conventional wisdom.”

“Dont accept any knowledge or conventional wisdom without critically questioning it first.”

“When it comes to anniversaries, the publishing industry usually resembles distant relatives, readiest with gifts that are redundant or farcical.”