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Among All Life Forms, There Are Creatures With Charisma And Creatures Without. It's One Of Those Ineffable Qualities We Can't Quite Define, But We All Seem To Respond Similarly To.

I Wish I Had Coined The Phrase 'tyranny Of Choice,' But Someone Beat Me To It. The Counterintuitive Truth Is That Have An Abundance Of Options Does Not Make You Feel Privileged And Indulged; Too Many Options Make You Feel Like All Of Them Are Wrong, And That You Are Wrong If You Choose Any Of Them.

Buying A Car Used To Be An Experience So Soul-scorching, So Confidence-splattering, So Existentially Rattling That An Entire Car Company Was Based On The Promise That You Wouldn't Have To Come In Contact With It.

I Teach A Non-fiction Writing Class At New York University, And One Of My Great Pleasures Is Deciding On The Syllabus.

The Old Orchid Hunter Lay Back On His Pillow, His Body Limp... 'you'll Curse The Insects,' He Said At Least, 'and You'll Curse The Natives... The Sun Will Burn You By Day And The Cold Will Shrivel You By Night. You'll Be Racked By Fever And Tormented By A Hundred Discomforts, But You'll Go On. For When A Man Falls In Love With Orchids, He'll Do Anything To Possess The One He Wants. It's Like Chasing A Green-eyed Woman Or Taking Cocaine... It's A Sort Of Madness.