LOOK, UNLESS YOU’RE WRITING ONE, A SELF-HELP book is an oxymoron. (Location 70)
Why, for example, do you persist in reading that much-praised, breathtakingly boring foreign novel, slogging through page after page after please-make-it-stop page of tar-slow prose and blush-inducing formal conceit, if not out of an impulse to understand distant lands that because of globalization are increasingly affecting life in your own? (Location 206)
and in any case over sufficiently long a term, as everyone knows, there is nothing that does not have as its consequence death. (Location 336)
Getting an education is a running leap towards becoming filthy rich in rising Asia (Location 341)
