If you want to make the right decision for the future, fear is not a very good consultant.
“Publish or Perish,” by Ken Auletta, in The New Yorker, April 26, 2010.
I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had.
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (New York: Grove Press, 1985), 169.