A lot of parents ask me how to get kids to eat more vegetables. The first thing I say is that it starts from the top.
“I think some people wished I'd kept myself out of the book. But I kind of insist on it because I want the reader to share my engagement with the material, if you like, not pretend that I'm doing it completely intellectually.”
“At one point in college I was so shy that I'd drop out of a class if asked to speak in front of other people.”