Some introverts are perfectly comfortable with public speaking; I'm not one of them.

Opposites attract, and I think temperament is so fundamental that you end up craving someone of the opposite temperament to complete you.

What looks like multitasking is really switching back and forth between multiple tasks, which reduces productivity and increases mistakes by up to 50 percent.

Solitude matters. And for some people it's the air they breathe.

There's zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas.

we have two ears and one mouth and we should use them proportionally

You're told that you're in your head too much, a phrase that's often deployed against the quiet and cerebral. Or maybe there's another word for such people: thinkers.

Introverts are capable of acting like extroverts for the sake of work they consider important, people they love, or anything they value highly.

It's as if they have thinner boundaries separating them from other people's emotions and from the tragedies and cruelties of the world.

I'm continually amazed by how many people who appear to be extroverts are actually introverts.

Cross the street to avoid making aimless chitchat with random acquaintances.

You have to experience you own life just as death.

We wouldn't want to live in a world where no one believed in themselves enough to make their own dreams come true.

I don’t want us to be the species that ruins it for the rest. What we do not consume we poison. Sometimes we do both. Perhaps that is how we shall end, by consuming the poisons we have created.

You can only have fun helping other people have fun if you're having fun doing it.

I am not a historian. I am a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past

I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it.

You'll be scared! Sure you'll be scared. Who wouldn't fear having their head completely blown off.

Anytime I switch to another instrument, I immediately turn it into another kind of drum so that I can understand it better.

Don't spend so much time trying to choose the perfect opportunity, that you miss the right opportunity.

Don't try too hard to be young. Be who you are.