“One of the professors told me last week that he feels bad teaching with the way the economy is now. Whats the point? he said. Kids arent getting jobs. You never hear faculty talk that way. He did.”

“Education makes your maths better, not necessarily your manners.”

“The goal of argumentation is to make a case so forceful (note the metaphor) that skeptics are coerced into believing itthey are powerless to deny it while still claiming to be rational. In principl...”

“Don't cry over someone who wouldn't cry over you.”

“Eventually something you love is going to be taken away. And then you will fall to the floor crying. And then, however much later, it is finally happening to you: youre falling to the floor crying ...”

“Weeping is not the same thing as crying. It takes your whole body to weep, and when it's over, you feel like you don't have any bones left to hold you up.”

“Theres only so many times you can fight before the only person you fight for is yourself.”

“It was truebut it was harsh. And it feels like maybe a harsh truth can be as hurtful as a lie.”

“Sometimes, even pretty simple situations can become tough, when the thing you love the most and the thing you have to sacrifice is the same.”