When the Haiti earthquake happened, I registered with UNICEF to set up an account, and posted to Twitter for people to donate to it. In a matter of a couple of hours, $30,000 had been donated. That, to me, was eye-opening.
How often is immense sadness mistaken for courage?
She wanted to hold foreign syllables like mints on her tongue until they dissolved into fluency.
Inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce, and that is who we are.
But there had to be a quota. An upper limit to the number of miracles one is privileged to in a lifetime. How many times can a beloved reappear?
A good mixtape didn't just gather together a bunch of love songs, but instead created an emotional narrative specific to your affection. The stories in most of my favorite collections are collected more like songs on a mixtape than, say, collected like spare change. By which I mean they are in conversation with each other and work to become larger than their parts.
We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more than wolves. But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are.
You know who your true friends are when things go wrong for you, but the opposite is also true. When things go well, the people who really love you are happy.
Englishmen must learn to be Brahmins, not banias.
Every step begins a journey, and this one is for us.
Only by obedience to his genius; only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to arise beforea man, and lead him by the hand out of all the wards of the prison.