Potent quotables
It was the first time I was willing to put 100 percent of my effort into one single pursuit without fear of failing, because I loved doing it so much that I couldn’t focus on anything else.
My mom drove up to visit me at college in late October 2001. It was the first day she had taken off since September 11th. I didn’t know she was coming, and I was so happy and surprised to see her. I said, “What are you doing here?” And she said, “I needed a hug.”
One of the most exhilarating panic attacks I’ve ever had.
He taught me that if you try to do something you love and something someone else wants you to do, they both suffer, and the thing you love might disappear entirely.
Che also deserves a lot of credit for questioning every step of the process and asking, “Why would we do it that way?” If the answer was: “Because that’s the way we’ve always done it,” he knew that wasn’t a good enough reason.
So I did what any other thirty-five-year-old man would do—I texted that photo to my mom and wrote, “This bad?”
Lit review
I have a confession, and it’s that I have a crush on Colin Jost. Something about his humor just really gets me.