Quotes from Ben Tanzer

The bigger you feel things, the more curious you are; and the more problems you want to solve and not actually run from, the better everything is, even the things you already love.

A therapist once said to me that I was a good storyteller, but he didn't mean it as a compliment.

It's never too early to think about your legacy, she would say. Don't you want to leave some kind of mark that you were here?

my father told me he had hurt his knee, though that didn't explain why he was icing his balls

just how into being a dad he was, even if he recognized, and was sometimes tortured by the fact, that being a dad meant he couldn't be as productive and immersed in his work as he thought he needed to be. Still, he was a dad, and he loved to tell stories, to anyone who would listen in fact, and