“If you want to learn a culture, you have to learn how to like what it likes, rather than go looking for something that you like.”

“When there are boys you have to worry about how you look, and whether they like you, and why they like another girl better, and whether they're going to ask you to something or other. It's a strain.”

“You can learn more by going to the opera than you ever can by reading Emerson. Like that there are two sexes.”

“Balancing the budget is like protecting your virtue , you have to learn how to say no.”

“The people in Micronesia, they not like before. Before, everybody, man and woman, they learn about the culture and navigation. But now, nobody like learn, because they use the GPS and the motorboat. But what you going to do when the GPS broke, or the engine broke? You just gonna follow the wind and the current away, and maybe die in the ocean.”

“It felt very good to have him walking beside her. Good like rest and quiet, like something you could live without but you needed anyway. That you had to learn how to miss, and then you'd never stop missing it.”

“I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.”

“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.”

“What do you want to have true? Pick something between total fantasy & 51% believable, get going, & readjust as you learn.”

“The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.”