“And yet that's the best way to watch television actively: with your eyes closed.”

“And yet that's the best way to watch television actively: with your eyes closed.”

“Once again, it seemed, I was discovering the truth of the rule, a rule I'd never explicitly formulated to myself, but whose veracity I'd quite often sensed in a vague sort of way, which was that the chances of seeing an idea through to completion are inversely proportional to the time you've spent talking about it beforehand.”