Your own regrets may not be as ugly as you think they are..

Error ... is less an intellectual problem than an existential one - a crisis not in what we know, but in who we are. We hear something of that identi….

I had drunk our great cultural Kool-Aid about regret, which is that lamenting things that occurred in the past is an absolute waste of time, that we ….

The kinds of things that we can make mistakes about are essentially unlimited in number..

Wow. I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong..

Regret doesn't remind us that we did badly, it reminds us that we know that we could do better..

wrongness always seems to come at us from left field - that is, from outside ourselves. But the reality could hardly be more different. Error is the ….

I can usually find my own way out of whatever dicey literary or linguistic situations I wander into, but I have to work much harder at the science..

both doubt and certainty are as contagious as the common cold.