181 Quotes by Tracy Kidder

Northampton has layers and layers. I saw a whole side of it I didn't know, hadn't imagined had existed.

You don't get far with people by judging them, and one of the nice things of my profession is I don't have to. It makes things a lot more fun, more interesting.

I wanted to stay with my friends on Long Island, but I finally agreed to take a look at Andover. I remember being impressed by the school's extraordinary facilities. I thought about it long and hard and decided to give it a try.

I'm sure that many set out for Vietnam feeling confused or unhappy, as adolescents tend to do,

I grew up in Long Island, a place that vanished in front of my eyes. I grew up there in the '50s, in the great building boom. It was pretty distressing-you go away and come home and find a whole town gone, a cloverleaf in its place.

The underside of a town as nice as Northampton can still be pretty gritty.

Andover was like a monastery back then. We worked all the time. The hazing was ferocious-I still hate to think about it.

I'm going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season.

I've gotta keep life and computers separate, or else I'm gonna go mad.