Quote of the Day (Andre Dubus, on Shyness at School)

“Proportion is all; and, in sports at school, I lost it by surrendering to the awful significance of my self-consciousness. Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.”— American short story writer, essayist, novelist and memoirist Andre Dubus (1936-1999), “Under the Lights,” in Broken Vessels (1991)