The act of reading is so intimate that readers are unpredictable.

There is very little sense that anybody really knows what works or why. But that's not a shock. And I don't think market research would solve that.

The act of reading is so intimate that readers are unpredictable.

Women. You tell me they're not all witches, and I'll tell you you haven't been paying attention.

When you learn economy. It strips away self-indulgence. Just in the act itself it requires a certain amount of humility. You have to accept the fact that you might feel you can do better but in the moment you have to make a choice.

Once we understand how they think, we can predict their behaviour. And once we predict it well, we can manipulate it. That is diplomacy.

One day, when I am a braver man, I will tell her these things, and then I will look her in the eye, tell her I love her and ask her to be only mine. But until that day, we're just friends.