It can be worth forgoing marriage for sex, and it can be worth forgoing sex for marriage. It can be worth forgoing parenthood for work, and it can be worth forgoing work for parenthood. Every case is orthogonal to all the others. That’s the entire problem.

Everything has to be paid for, especially money.

You aren’t the same person after a good night’s sleep as you are after a sleepless night. But which person is you?

It can be worth forgoing marriage for sex, and it can be worth forgoing sex for marriage. It can be worth forgoing parenthood for work, and it can be worth forgoing work for parenthood. Every case is orthogonal to all the others. That’s the entire problem.

You aren’t the same person after a good night’s sleep as you are after a sleepless night. But which person is you?

Respect the one-hit wonder not for his one hit but for all the days he must have suffered afterward, trying for another.

Every success story can be told as a series of failures.

I annotated my friend’s book manuscript with scribbles on every page. She annotated mine with a single note: This needs to be better. She trusted that I would know what to do, and I did.

Everything has to be paid for, especially money.