Without the New York Times, there is no blog community. They'd have nothing to blog about.

Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues... I'm someone who changes his mind all the time.

We need to look at the subtle, the hidden, and the unspoken.

I always resist seeing my own personal motivation in my work, but I guess it must be there on some level. And I do feel very much that my life follows the kinds of things I talk about in my books. I've always thought of myself as an insanely lucky person, so perhaps the success of my first two books led me to want to examine this phenomenon on some unconscious level.

A lot of what is most beautiful about the world arises from struggle.

There are some people, who I'll charitably call snobs, who are dismissive of any conversation that doesn't begin with the full level of complexity. That's just not how the world works.

Insight is not a lightbulb that goes off inside our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out.