
we sho…n history were to get together, none would be able to explain our baffling relationship with time. “We’re tight-fisted with property and money,” he writes, “yet think too little of wasting time, the one thing about which we should all be the toughest misers.”
…y entire life. Every time I would meet a successful or important person I admired, I would ask them: “What’s a book that changed your life?” And then I would read that book. (In college, for instance, I was lucky enough to meet TV host Dr. …
…g their stillborn son and he is struggling to make sense of the tragedy that has just befallen him. “The world breaks everyone,” Hemingway wrote, “and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills.”