I want to be Louis Menand when I grow up

"Even then, he seems to have been blessed with an incapacity for shame, a gift for which he had many occasions to be thankful."

"They had lunch at the Harvard Faculty Club, which was, and remains, the unlikeliest venue in which to plan the future of a psychedelic movement."

--Louis Menand, Bass Professor of English at Harvard, on Timothy Leary and the Harvard Psychedelic Project (which really existed) in The New Yorker