This excerpt is from 'Don't Eat Fortune's Cookie'.
Explanation:
In his speech, he says, "My advisor was a truly gifted professor, an archaeologist named William Childs."
" The thesis tried to explain how the Italian sculptor Donatello used Greek and Roman sculpture — which is actually totally beside the point, but I’ve always wanted to tell someone".
"God knows what Professor Childs actually thought of it, but he helped me to become engrossed. More than engrossed: obsessed. When I handed it in I knew what I wanted to do for the rest of my life: to write senior theses. Or, to put it differently: to write books."