"Absent any social or political critique. But “Your Money or Your Life” was never supposed to be just a self-help guid…"

"There’s a lot of blather about meaningful work and purpose in life. It’s dangled out as a carrot, and I don’t know ho…"

"Spending money is not an assertion of your freedom. It is the key to your next enslavement."

"Nobility is one thing, but to die of frugality is another."

"Things that should happen because of justice and environmental sustainability, but will also benefit the FIRE people …"

"A lot of people are stuck for their entire lives in jobs that do not agree with their souls because of college debt."

"We need to look as a society at the system that says to succeed you need a college education, but you have to sell yo…"

"I never saw it as a book that’s about giving up things."

"I was selling outsmarting a system that’s trying to outsmart you."

"Scientific education is catholic; it embraces the whole field of human learning. No student can master all knowledge …"