Status Updates From American Spy

I’d started telling people I wanted to be a doctor because it felt crude to say what I actually wanted, which was to be wealthy and respected.

In too much of what he said, I heard overconfidence about his limited life experience and in his aggressively average intelligence. He was the type of guy that, had he been born white, especially if he'd grown up with a little money, would probably have wound up at an excellent business school.