I've always been baffled by how much we over-rate the statistically insignificant differences that separate competitors at the top end of the distribution.

Father: 'Anything but journalism.' I rebelled.

When crime drops dramatically in New York for no apparent reason, or when a movie made on a shoestring budget ends up making hundreds of millions of dollars - we're surprised. I'm saying, don't be surprised. This is the way social epidemics work.

Science fiction annoyed me because it was like, "Why is the world as it is not enough for you?"

Those three things - autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward - are, most people will agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying.

We vary greatly in the natural advantages that we've been given. The world's not fair

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