In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours.

Television allows the audience to argue with the creator in a way you don't in a movie.

An innate gift and a certain amount of intelligence are important, but what really pays is ordinary experience.

The Band-Aid solution is actually the best kind of solution because it involves solving a problem with the minimum amount of effort and time and cost.

My highest compliment is when someone comes up to me to say, "My 14-year-old daughter, or my 12-year-old son read your book and loved it." I cannot conceive of a greater compliment than that - to write something that as an adult I find satisfying, but also that manages to reach a curious 13- or 14-year-old.

Choking is about thinking too much. Panic is about thinking too little. Choking is about loss of instinct. Panic is reversion to instinct. They may look the same, but they are worlds apart.

Bad improvisers block action, often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action.