Posting information is like pornography, a slick, impersonal exhibition.

- William Deresiewicz

Life, if you live it right, keeps surprising you, and the thing that keeps surprising you the most…is yourself

- William Deresiewicz

People don't mind being in prison as long as no one else is free. But stage a jailbreak, and everybody else freaks out.

- William Deresiewicz

We proceed by doubt, by trial and error, by resisting the impulse to lunge after certainty.

- William Deresiewicz

People’s stories are the most personal thing they have, and paying attention to those stories is just about the most important thing you can do for t…

- William Deresiewicz

Don't play it safe. Resist the seductions of the cowardly values our society has come to prize so highly: comfort, convenience, security, predictabil…

- William Deresiewicz

If you're oblivious to other people, chances are pretty good that you're going to hurt them.

- William Deresiewicz

If you want others to follow, learn to be alone with your thoughts.

- William Deresiewicz

Hence the vogue for double majors. It isn’t enough anymore to take a bunch of electives in addition to your primary focus, to roam freely across the …

- William Deresiewicz