Thanks to the wonderful team at Harvard Book Store for hosting me and The World in A Phrase on Nov 10. And thanks to everyone who came out to juggle words, ideas, and balls.

There was a blank sheet selected from the globe, and the subject was: Anthropology. With a little help from everyone in the audience, I finally came up with something from Chamfort …

There are two great classes in society: Those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.