My mother is somebody who I think of as having just an intense close focus. She's somebody who really can pay very, very close attention to the thing she's focusing on for a very long period of time, and that has served her incredibly well in her professional career. She knows - the things she knows, she knows them just so deeply.

It's much easier to hire really great people like that in New York and in Brooklyn in particular, than it is in Washington.

Writing a column, a weekly column for the New York Times, is really tough, and I wasn't prepared for the demands that that involved.

The New York Times is the greatest media company around, arguably, and the people at the New York Times know a lot more about making a giant successful media company than I do.

I do think there will be winners and losers in the 21st century economy.

When you have spent too much time with something, you may lose sight of what's marvelous about it.

People who tend to invest are either going to invest in something where you're raising $5 million or they're going to invest in something where you're raising $1 million, but if you're trying to raise $2.5 million it's kind of a weird amount.