‘Always make the audience suffer as much as possible’. Hitchcock was an information sadist.

mystery, says Abrams, ‘demands that you stop and consider — or, at the very least, slow down and discover.’

Puzzles and mysteries correspond roughly with specific and epistemic curiosity.

foxhog.

Working-class families are more likely to pursue what Lareau calls a natural growth style of parenting.

‘Curiosity about life in all its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.’

makes us lucky.

Curiosity is the sweetest form of dissatisfaction.

Epistemic curiosity requires us to care about our own information gaps,