“The things you'll never do don't get decided at the end of life, but somewhere in the long gray middle, where you can't see the dim light at either end.”
― The Lay of the Land
― The Lay of the Land
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Mother Night
― Mother Night
“I’d learned the hard way that when hiring executives, one should follow Colin Powell’s instructions and hire for strength rather than lack of weakness.”
― The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers―Straight Talk on the Challenges of Entrepreneurship
― The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers―Straight Talk on the Challenges of Entrepreneurship
“[T]hat I could find company and consolation and hope in an object pulled almost at random from a bookshelf--felt akin to an instance of religious grace.”
― How to Be Alone
― How to Be Alone
“The world was ending then, it's ending still, and I'm happy to belong to it again.”
― How to Be Alone
― How to Be Alone
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