Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can.
“Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living.”
“One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons.”